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The Best Graduation Speeches of 2010

1. Meryl Streep


This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s the only chance, and resistance to it and then more change.


2. Julianna Margulies


 Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.


3. Tim Cook


 For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.


4. Lisa Kudrow


 … I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it’s always a good move to listen to that inner voice…if it doesn’t lead to a crime.


5. Roger Goodell


 It is very common … to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It’s not real.

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6. Angela Ahrendts


 We live by what we believe not by what we see.


7. Rachel Maddow


 Some dreams are bad dreams. . . . Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.


8. Jamie Hyneman


 I’ve learned that I can pretty much do anything I’ve wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.