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“I was sitting with the rest of my college graduating class listening to the commencement speaker prepare us for life after graduation, and he…

— Doug Lansky

“During the debates, Jared’s assistant, Avi Berkowitz, a Harvard Law grad ran what we called Trump Tower Live, a live-feed Facebook talk show that…

— Corey R. Lewandowski

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you…

— Ernest Cline

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." [ Stanford University commencement speech , 2005]”

— Steve Jobs

I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's…

— Brian Lamb

My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises.

— Stephanie Ruhle

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine,…

— David Foster Wallace

I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won’t be the last,

— Michael Grimm

My first day at Fox, President Obama gave a primetime address to the nation. That would have been a great chance for Roger Ailes…

— Ed Henry

One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults…

— Angela Duckworth

“At the forum, Trump was the walking, talking embodiment of the cable news show, a rambling, bombastic blowhard who said nothing at all but…

— Jared Yates Sexton

I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space of Democracy…

— Terry Tempest Williams