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

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