名人励志英语演讲 第89期:让我们选举巴拉克·奥巴马为美利坚合众国总统(2)

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my

名人励志英语演讲 第90期:让我们选举巴拉克·奥巴马为美利坚合众国总统(3)

And you know, what struck me when I first met Barack was that even though he had this funny name, and even though he had grown up all the way across the continent in Hawaii, his family was so much like mine. He was raised by grandparents who were wor

名人励志英语演讲 第82期:为成功做好准备(1)

Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, memebers of the university, graduates, ladies and gentlemen. As I look around this hall full of happy, proud faces, filled with enthusiasm and hope for the future, I am struck by the rich possibilities that await you. You

名人励志英语演讲 第161期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(8)

Because at that moment I became the worst scourge on God's green earth, a rock star with a cause. Krikee. Except it isn't the cause. Seven thousand Africans dying every day of preventable, treatable disease like AIDS? That's not a cause--that's an em

名人励志英语演讲 第166期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(13)

Every era has its defining struggle and the fate of Africa is one of ours. It's not the only one, but in the history books it's easily going to make the top five--what we did or what we did not do. It's a proving ground, as I said earlier, for the id

名人励志英语演讲 第164期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(11)

Me, I'm in love with this country called America. I'm a huge fan--I'm a huge fan of America. I'm like one of those annoying fans, you know the ones that read the CD notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about

名人励志英语演讲 第163期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(10)

Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, at the Liberty Bell, I met a lot of Americans who do have the will. From arch--Are you here? There's the three million of them over there--From arch religious conservatives to young secular radicals, I just felt an in

名人励志英语演讲 第162期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(9)

Well, more than we think. We can't fix every problem--corruption, natural calamities are part of the picture here--but the ones we can we must. The debt burden, as I say, unfair trade, as I say, sharing our knowledge, the intellectual copyright for l

名人励志英语演讲 第160期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(7)

Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because there's no way to look at what's happening over there and its effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider

名人励志英语演讲 第159期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(6)

Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, its foibles; its phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths. Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children

名人励志英语演讲 第158期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(5)

Actually I saw something in--in the paper last week about Kermit the Frog giving a commencement address somewhere. One of the studens was complaining, I worked my ass off for four years to be addressed by a sock? You have worked your ass off for this

名人励志英语演讲 第157期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(4)

So that for better or worse that was my education. I came away with a clear sense of the difference music could make in my own life, in other people's lives if I did my job right. --Which, if you're a singer in a rock band, means avoiding the obvious

名人励志英语演讲 第165期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(12)

Franklin was deeply, deeply distressed by what he saw. In Ireland he saw how England had put a stranglehold on Irish trade, how absentee English landlords exploited Irish tenant farmers and how those farmers in Franklin's words lived in wretched hove

名人励志英语演讲 第15期:我们必须强大(5)

Martin Luther King's dream was the American Dream. His quest is our quest: the ceaseless striving to live our true creed. Our history has been built on such dreams and labors. And dreams and labors we will redeem the promise of America in the 21st Ce

名人励志英语演讲 第14期:我们必须强大(4)

Our founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries,flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day. 我们的缔造者深深了解这一点，他们给予我们一

名人励志英语演讲 第2期:梦想与责任(2)

I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she didn't have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up

名人励志英语演讲 第1期:梦想与责任(1)

Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody doing today? How about Tim Spicer? I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we've got st

名人励志英语演讲 第9期:梦想与责任(9)

These people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures define you -- you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn't mean y

名人励志英语演讲 第8期:梦想与责任(8)

But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it. 但无论你决定做什么，我希望你保证去做。我希望你脚踏实地去做。 I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be r

名人励志英语演讲 第7期:梦想与责任(7)

And then there's Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep youn