Name: 必看！歐普拉2008年在史丹佛激勵人心的畢業演講 Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address
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Thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you.

I need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret.

Stanford Class of '08, is my goddaughter.

So, I was thrilled when President Hennessy

asked me to be your Commencement speaker,

because this is the first time I've been allowed

She wants people to get to know her on her own terms, she says.

So, she never wants anyone who's first meeting

her to know that I know her and she knows me.

I hear that they arrived and everybody was so welcoming,

and somebody came up to Kirby and they said,

Because a lot of people know Gayle King as my BFF [best friend forever].

And so somebody comes up to Kirby, and they say,

And Kirby's like, "Uh-huh. She's my mom."

"Oh my god, does it mean, like, you know Oprah Winfrey?"

And Kirby says, "Sort of." I said, "Sort of? You sort of know me?"

I have pictures which I can e-mail to you all

of Kirby riding horsey with me on all fours.

So, I more than sort-of know Kirby Bumpus.

And I'm so happy to be here, just happy that I finally,

There's really nowhere else I'd rather be,

because I'm so proud of Kirby, who graduates today with two degrees,

one in human bio and the other in psychology.

Love you, Kirby Cakes! That's how well I know her.

who helped her get through this time, and her brother, Will.

I really had nothing to do with her graduating from Stanford,

but every time anybody's asked me in the past

couple of weeks what I was doing, I would say,

I know I would have never gotten my degree at all,

But I never would have gotten my diploma at all,

because I was supposed to graduate back in 1975,

And I figured, I'm just going to forget it,

'cause, you know, I'm not going to march with my class.

Because by that point, I was already on television.

I'd been in television since I was 19 and a sophomore.

Granted, I was the only television anchor person that

had an 11 o'clock curfew doing the 10 o'clock news.

"Well, that news is over at 10:30. Be home by 11."

But that didn't matter to me, because I was earning a living.

I was on my way. So, I thought, I'm going to let this college

thing go and I only had one credit short.

But, my father, from that time on and for years after,

was always on my case, because I did not graduate.

He'd say, "Oprah Gail" that's my middle name "I don't

know what you're gonna do without that degree."

And I'd say, "But, Dad, I have my own television show."

I still don't know what you're going to do without that degree."

And I'd say, "But, Dad, now I'm a talk show host."

So, in 1987, Tennessee State University invited

By then, I had my own show, was nationally syndicated.

But I told them, I cannot come and give a

speech unless I can earn one more credit,

because my dad's still saying I'm not going

I turned in my final paper and I got the degree.

But I also know why my dad was insisting on that diploma,

"The beautiful thing about learning is that

because your education, of course, isn't ending here.

The world has so many lessons to teach you.

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