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Denzel Washington
Commencement Speech at University of Pennsylvania, 2011

  You will never see a U-haul behind a hearse. You can’ take it with you.
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Meryl Streep

Commencement Address at New York State 1983

 Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heat to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too. Don’t let your special character and values, …– don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
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Jerry Zucker

Commencement Address at University of Wisconsin 2003

  Get out there and go for it. But don’t be caught waiting. It’s great to plan for your future. Just don’t live there, because really nothing ever happens in the future. Whatever happens now, so you live your life where the action is – now.
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Alan Alda

Commencement Address at Connecticut College 1980

  When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely at the shore. ..Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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Michael Uslan

Graduation Commencement Address at Indiana University 2006

Don’t believe them when they tell you how bad you are and how terrible your ideas are, but also, don’t believe them when they start telling you how wonderful you are and how great your ideas are. Just believe in yourself and believe in your work and you’ll do just fine. And, don’t forget to market yourself. Use both sides of your brain.
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Julianna Margulies

Commencement Address at Sarah Lawrence, 2011

I have learned to go fully in the face of my dreams. I would recommend you do the same. Now is the time in your life to be selfish. To explore. To take chances. Remember being selfish is not the same as being self-indulgent.
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Paul Glaser
Commencement Address at Standford School of Medicine

  When we experience our fear, when we say the words “I am scared”, we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being “scared” is not who we are. It is not our identity.
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Bradley Whitford

Commencement Address at the University of Wisconsin, 2006

Fall in love with the process and the results will follow…Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us. The joy is in the journey.
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Fred Armisen

Commencement Address at Oregon Episcopal High School

Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.
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Jane Lynch
Commencement Address at Smith College, 2012

 You can’t make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it’s going to be a good day after all.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Commencement Address at USC, 2011

 Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
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