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egrees, to the professions of business, law, engineering, humanities, science, medicine, if you choose to offer your skills and talent in service, when you choose the paradigm of service, looking at life through that paradigm, it turns everything you do from a job into a I know you haven39。t spent all this time at Stanford just to go out and get a ,你都應(yīng)該把你的才智貢獻(xiàn)給能夠鼓舞他人的事業(yè)。如果你是 一名剖析家,你應(yīng)當(dāng)把你們的智慧投入到醫(yī)治他人當(dāng)中。無(wú)論你是否被召喚,你們中的很 多人在經(jīng)濟(jì),法律,人權(quán),科學(xué),醫(yī)藥方面都獲得了諸如博士一類的學(xué)位,如果你們決定把 你們的技能和智慧奉獻(xiàn)給服務(wù)他人們,選擇把服務(wù)他人作為榜樣,你們的工作就會(huì)變成一 種天賦。我知道你們?cè)谒固垢K诘囊磺芯褪菫榱顺鋈フ乙环莨ぷ?。You39。ve been enriched in countless 39。s no better way to make your mark on the world and to share that abundance with constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater 。沒(méi)有其它更好的方式能夠分享你的豐富的才智了。我永恒的 祈禱就是讓自己能夠?yàn)樗颂峁└玫姆?wù)So, let me end with one of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther said, ”Not everybody can be famous.“ And I don39。t know, but everybody today seems to want to be 。他說(shuō)“不是所有人都會(huì)出名?!蔽也恢?,但 似乎今天所有人都想出名。But fame is a follow you to the bathroom, listen to you 39。s just—try to pee doesn39。t matter, they e out and say, ”O(jiān)hmigod, it39。s peed.“ 但是成名也是一種代價(jià)。有些人會(huì)尾隨你到衛(wèi)生間,聽(tīng)你尿尿。你會(huì)盡量尿的輕一些。這沒(méi) 什么大不了的。他們會(huì)對(duì)你說(shuō):“我的天啊,是你!你尿尿啦?!?That39。s the fame trip, so I don39。t know if you want ,我不知道你們是否喜歡。So, said, ”Not everybody can be everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.“ Those of you who are history scholars may know the rest of that said, ”You don39。t have to have a college degree to don39。t have to make your subject and verb agree to don39。t have to know about Plato or Aristotle to don39。t have to know Einstein39。s theory of relativity to don39。t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love. 所以,正如馬丁路德金所說(shuō),“不是所有人都會(huì)成名。但每個(gè)人都可以變的偉大,因?yàn)閭ゴ?是通過(guò)為他人服務(wù)而界定的。” 你們當(dāng)中學(xué)歷史的人可能會(huì)知道他接下來(lái)的話“為別人提 供服務(wù),并不一定要有大學(xué)學(xué)歷,并不一定要主謂一致,并不一定要認(rèn)識(shí)柏拉圖和亞里士多 德,并不一定要會(huì)愛(ài)因斯坦的相對(duì)論,并不一定要了解熱力學(xué)第二定律。你所需要的是一 顆優(yōu)雅的心靈和充滿愛(ài)的靈魂?!盜n a few moments, you39。ll all be officially Stanford39。s 39。You have the heart and the smarts to go with it39。s up to you to decide, really, where will you now use those gifts? You39。ve got the diploma, so go out and get the lessons, 39。cause I know great things are sure to 。你們將會(huì)決定如何利用它。說(shuō)真的,你們將會(huì)如何利用它呢?你們拿到了 學(xué)位。走向社會(huì)吧,我堅(jiān)信偉大的事將會(huì)發(fā)生的。You know, I39。ve always believed that everything is better when you share it, so before I go, I wanted to share a graduation gift with your seats you39。ll find two of my favorite Tolle39。s A New Earth is my current book club New Earth webcast has been downloaded 30 million times with that Daniel Pink39。s AWhole New Mind: Why RightBrainers Will Rule the Future has reassured me I39。m in the right ,我一直堅(jiān)信,如果你和他人分享,那么事情就會(huì)變得更好。所以在我離開(kāi)之前,我想和大家分享一下畢業(yè)禮物。在你們的座位底下,你們會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)兩本我最喜歡的書(shū)。Eckhart Tolle的A New Earth流行書(shū)俱樂(lè)部的精選品。我們的New Earth廣播已經(jīng)被下載3 億次。Daniel Pink的AWhole New Mind: Why RightBrainers Will Rule the Future 使我確定我在人 生的正軌上。I really wanted to give you cars but I just couldn39。t pull that off!Congratulations, 39。08!我真的想送大家轎車(chē),只是開(kāi)不過(guò)來(lái)!祝賀大家!08年的畢業(yè)生們!__第二篇:奧普拉在斯坦福大學(xué)2008畢業(yè)典禮上的演講奧普拉在斯坦福大學(xué)2008畢業(yè)典禮上的演講[中英文對(duì)照]Thank you, President Hennessy, and to the trustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the Stanford you for letting me share this amazing day with need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret is that Kirby Bumpus, Stanford Class of 39。08, is my , I was thrilled when President Hennessy asked me to be your Commencement speaker, because this is the first time I39。ve been allowed on campus since Kirby39。s been see, Kirby39。s a very smart wants people to get to know her on her own terms, she in terms of who she , she never wants anyone who39。s first meeting her to know that I know her and she knows , when she first came to Stanford for new student orientation with her mom, I hear that they arrived and everybody was so weling, and somebody came up to Kirby and they said, “Ohmigod, that39。s Gayle King!” Because a lot of people know Gayle King as my BFF [best friend forever].And so somebody es up to Kirby, and they say, “Ohmigod, is that Gayle King?” And Kirby39。s like, “39。s my mom.”And so the person says, “Ohmigod, does it mean, like, you know Oprah Winfrey?”And Kirby says, “Sort of.”I said, “Sort of? You sort of know me?” Well, I have photographic have pictures which I can to you all of Kirby riding horsey with me on all , I more than sortof know Kirby I39。m so happy to be here, just happy that I finally, after four years, get to see her 39。s really nowhere else I39。d rather be, because I39。m so proud of Kirby, who graduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in you, Kirby Cakes!That39。s how well I know can call her so proud of her mother and father, who helped her get through this time, and her brother, really had nothing to do with her graduating from Stanford, but every time anybody39。s asked me in the past couple of weeks what I was doing, I would say, “I39。m getting ready to go to Stanford.”I just love saying “Stanford.” Because the truth is, I know I would have never gotten my degree at all, 39。cause I didn39。t go to went to Tennessee State I never would have gotten my diploma at all, because I was supposed to graduate back in 1975, but I was short one I figured, I39。m just going to forget it, 39。cause, you know, I39。m not going to march with my by that point, I was already on 39。d been in television since I was 19 and a , I was the only television anchor person that had an 11 o39。clock curfew doing the 10 o39。clock , my dad was like, “Well, that news is over at 10: home by 11.”But that didn39。t matter to me, because I was earning a was on my , I thought, I39。m going to let this college thing go and I only had one credit , my father, from that time on and for years after, was always on my case, because I did not 39。d say, “Oprah Gail”—that39。s my middle name—“I don39。t know what you39。re gonna do without that degree.” And I39。d say, “But, Dad, I have my own television show.”And he39。d say, “Well, I still don39。t know what you39。re going to do without that de