名人励志英语演讲 第13期:我们必须强大(3)

At the dawn of the 21st century a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and, yes, to form a more perfect union. 在二十一世纪的曙光来

名人励志英语演讲 第4期:梦想与责任(4)

And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you'll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You're goi

名人励志英语演讲 第5期:梦想与责任(5)

I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork. 我知道要做到学业优秀并非易事。我知道你们许多人在生活中面临挑战

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

名校励志英语演讲 09:给大学毕业生的几个忠告

I am extremely privileged to be part of the Obama administration. If there ever was a time to help steer America and the world towards a path of sustainable energy, now is the time. 能够成为奥巴马政府的一员，我感到极其荣幸。如果有

名校励志英语演讲 11:给大学毕业生的几个忠告

The first quote is from Martin Luther King. He spoke on ending the war in Vietnam in 1967, but his message seems so fitting for todays climate crisis, I quote: 第一段引语来自马丁路德金。这是1967年他就结束越南战争的评论，但是

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83期:为成功做好准备(2)

So what exactly is a successful life? How do you define it? Does being successful require you to amass material possessions or to wield great power? Must you be famous, or even become a celebrity? Perhaps it's more about being devoted to serving othe

名人励志英语演讲 第79期:我放弃了 但我会继续战斗(13)

That has always been the history of progress in America. Think of the suffragists who gathered at Seneca Falls in 1848 and those who kept fighting until women could cast their votes. Think of the abolitionists who struggled and died to see the end of

偶像励志英语演讲 第65期:执着于你的梦想(9)

Mr. Behring says that most of us think that a wheelchair would be a confinement, but to millions of people it is not a confinement, it is freedom, freedom to move and to go to school, freedom to vote, freedom to get a job, and freedom for hope for th

偶像励志英语演讲 第64期:执着于你的梦想(8)

Recently, as you probably maybe have read, Rosa Parks, a former seamstress married to a barber, married to a hairdresser, died, and she lay in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capital in Washington. People from around America came to say farewell to

偶像励志英语演讲 第63期:执着于你的梦想(7)

Some in my country fear that China's research and development will overtake America's, but I believe that America and the world will benefit from China's scientific and technological advances. I think we will benefit from that. If China makes advance

偶像励志英语演讲 49:让父母为你骄傲(9)

I got to Vassar which 43 years ago was a single-sex institution, like all the colleges in what they call the Seven Sisters, the female Ivy League and I made some very quick but lifelong and challenging friends. And with their help outside of any comp

偶像励志英语演讲 48:让父母为你骄傲(8)

And along with all my other exterior choices, I worked on, what actors call, my interior adjustment. I adjusted my natural temperament which tends to be slightly bossy, a little opinionated, loud, a little loud full of pronouncements and high spirits

偶像励志英语演讲 46:让父母为你骄傲(6)

I remember very clearly my own first conscious attempt at acting. I was six, placing my mother's half slip over my head in preparation to play the Virgin Mary in our living room. As I swaddled my Betsy Wetsy doll, I felt quiet, holy, actually, and my

偶像励志英语演讲 43:让父母为你骄傲(3)

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread it around like manure, fertilize those young minds, let them in on the secret. What is it that you kn

偶像励志英语演讲 42:让父母为你骄傲(2)

Or if that money-making website that you designed with your friends somehow suddenly attracts investors and advertisers and becomes the go-to site for whatever it is you're selling, blogging, sharing, or net-casting and success shinning, hoped-for bu

偶像励志英语演讲 41:让父母为你骄傲(1)

Thank you, all. Thank you, President Spar, Ms. Golden, President Tilghman, Members of the Board of Trustees, distinguished faculty, proud swelling parents and family, and gorgeous Class of 2010. If you are all really, really lucky, and if you continu

偶像励志英语演讲20:失败的好处和想象的重要性(2)

You see? If all you remember in years to come is the gay wizard joke, I've still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals--the first step to self-improvement. 你们知道吗？如果在若干年后你们还仅仅记得快乐的魔法师

名校励志英语演讲 168:服务—衡量成功的真正标准(9)

Now, let me tell you, careers focused on lifting up our communities whether it's helping troubled schools or creating after-school programs or training workers for green jobs these careers are not always obvious, but today they are necessary, solutio