great speeches

a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)

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Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie: 77th Emmy Awards

youtube.com

aalex

The SOUL!!!!

Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova

cs.oswego.edu

sari

The Road to Self-Renewal

Junto medium.com

andrea

Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part I

Kevin Xu interconnect.substack.com

sari

Gotta give credit to NYC Mayor Eric Adams for this phenomenal speech on Israel. It’s a few minutes that everyone should watch.

Eli Klein

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pphoebe

MLK vibes from nyc mayor in the wake of Hamas attack on Israel

"The Danger of a Single Story"

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie jamesclear.com

sari

Douglas Murray: What It Means to Choose Life

thefp.com

phoebe

The world is opening up to the fact that genius does not stem from individuals like us on stage, but rather genius emerges from the collective. We are all products of our context. We are all descendants of something and someone.

And I want to acknowledge my context, my immigrant parents, my father who fell in love with movies because he needed to

Devon Frye • Director Daniel Kwan: "Genius Emerges From the Collective"

Elena

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Wow. Wow. Wow. Incredible powerful message (incredible speech writing)—to those who stumbled on the wrong path and may ruin their future for not knowing the past. The weight of history

Josh Wolfe

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pphoebe

wow. what a speech. what a delivery.