Commencement Pearls

The Governator at Santa Monica College (his Alma Mater)
Work, work, work! Study, study, study! Win, win, win!
His remarks were occasionally drowned out by protestors.

Anna Quindlen at Barnard College (hers) After truly malicious truncation by me.
None of what you've learned in college means anything...

Alan Greenspan at the Wharton School:
It seems clear that, if the CEO chooses, he or she can, by example and through oversight, induce corporate colleagues and outside auditors to behave ethically.
Or not.

Warren Beatty at Berkley:
My parents and grandparents were teachers, and I became rich and famous 46 years ago...[Deletia which utterly changes the context of the next sentence] ...Does that make me a "girly man"?
Of course not Warren - you were born that way.

Sandra Tsing Low at Caltech (her AM)
Dare to disappoint your father...
She added that this advice went double for Asian students. She explained that after graduating in physics, she had gone into the liberal arts, which
...for a Chinese father, was like becoming a pole dancer.


John Lithgow at Harvard (his AM) seems to have recited a poem about a mouse that went to Harvard. Affirmative action, I think.

Steve Jobs at Stanford:
Death is very likely the single best invention of life
Well thanks a lot for that, Steverino - that certainly made my day.

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