名人励志英语演讲 第10期:梦想与责任(10)

And even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don't ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country. 即使当你苦苦挣扎、灰心丧气

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73期:我放弃了 但我会继续战斗(7)

We all want an America defined by deep and meaningful equality, from civil rights to labor rights, from women's rights to gay rights--from ending discrimination to promoting unionization, to providing help for the most important job there is: caring

名人励志英语演讲 第68期:我放弃了 但我会继续战斗(2)

To the young people like-a 13-year-old Anne Riddell from Mayfield, Ohio, who had been saving for two years to go to Disney World and decided to use her savings instead to travel to Pennsylvania with her mom and volunteer there, as well. To the vetera

名人励志英语演讲 第48期:我们选择登月(9)

That budget now stands at $5,400 million a yeara staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for ev

名人励志英语演讲 第46期:我们选择登月(7)

Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have circled the earth. Some 40 of them were made in the United States of America and they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the Sov

名人励志英语演讲 第41期:我们选择登月(2)

No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man's recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the e

名人励志英语演讲 第146期:感觉失败及寻找幸福(8)

And sometimes I wouldn't read the copy, and I'd be--because I wanted to be spontaneous--and I'd come across a list of words I didn't know and I'd mispronounce. And one day I was reading copy and I called Canada Cah-Nah-Dah. And I did just that. I cra

名人励志英语演讲 第154期:感觉失败及寻找幸福(16)

So, Dr. King said, Not everybody can be famous. But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. Yet, those of you who are history scholars may know the rest of that passage. He said, You don't have to have a college degree to

名人励志英语演讲 第156期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(3)

But no, I never went to college. I've slept in some strange places, but the library wasn't one of them. I studied rock and roll and I grew up in Dublin in the 70s; music was an alarm bell for me. It woke me up to the world. I was 17 when I first saw