经典名人英语演讲稿75：让父母为你骄傲（2010年影星梅丽尔.斯特里普巴纳德学院毕业生致辞）mp3

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[00:04.10]75. You Just Have to Make Your Mother and Father Proud
[00:09.10]Never before in the history or country have most of the advanced degrees been awarded to women but now they are. 
[00:16.85]Since the dawn of man, 
[00:18.69]it's hardly more than 100 years since we were even allowed into these buildings except to clean them 
[00:25.52]but soon most of law and medical degrees will probably also go to women. 
[00:31.85]Around the world, poor women now own property who used to be property and according to Economist magazine, 
[00:40.40]for the last ,two decades, the increase of female employment in the rich world has been the main driving force of growth. 
[00:47.70]Those women have contributed more to global GDP growth than have either new technology or the new giants India or china. 
[00:56.41]Cracks in the ceiling, cracks in the door, cracks in the Court and on the Senate floor. 
[01:04.80]You know, I gave a speech at Vassar 27 years ago. 
[01:08.32]It was a really big hit. 
[01:10.79]Everyone loved it, really. 
[01:13.00]Tom Brokaw said it was the very best commencement speech he had ever heard and of course I believed this. 
[01:19.97]And it was much easier to construct than this one. 
[01:23.75]It came out pretty easily because back then I knew so much. 
[01:28.58]I was a new mother, I had two A academy awards and it was all coming together so nicely. 
[01:35.77]I was smart and I understood boiler plate and what sounded good 
[01:39.47]and because I had been on the squad in high school, 
[01:42.57]earnest full-throated cheerleading was my specialty so that's what I did but now, 
[01:49.19]I feel like I know about 1/16th of what that young woman knew. 
[01:54.50]Things don't seem as certain today. 
[01:56.96]Now I'm 60, I have four adult children who are all facing the same challenges you are. 
[02:04.10]I'm more sanguine about all the things that I still don 't know and l'm still curious about. 
[02:11.28]What I do know about success, fame, celebrity――that would fill another speech. 
[02:19.82]How it separates you from your friends, from reality, from proportion. 
[02:24.91]Your own sweet anonymity, a treasure you don't even know you have until it's gone. 
[02:30.93]How it makes things tough for your family and whether being famous matters one bit, in the end, in the whole flux of time. 
[02:39.19]I know I was invited here because of that. 
[02:42.18]How famous I am. 
[02:44.88]How many awards I've won and while I am overweeningly proud of the work that, believe me, I did not do on my own. 
[02:53.62]I can assure that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness. 
[03:00.47]My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world-that comes from studying the world feelingly, 
[03:07.55]with empathy in my work. 
[03:09.93]It comes from staying alert and alive 
[03:14.39]and involved in the lives of the people that I love 
[03:16.49]and the people in the wider world who need my help. 
[03:20.00]No matter what you see me or hear me saying when I'm on your TV holding a statuette spewing, that's acting. 
[03:28.79]Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul. 
[03:36.60]Being here today has forced me to look around inside there for something useful that I can share with you 
[03:42.51]and I'm really grateful you gave me the chance. 
[03:45.58]You know you don't have to be famous. 
[03:48.96]You just have to make your mother and father proud of you and you already have. 
[03:54.80]Bravo to you. 
[03:55.72]Congratulations.

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经典名人英语演讲稿75：让父母为你骄傲（2010年影星梅丽尔.斯特里普巴纳德学院毕业生致辞）mp3