名人励志英语演讲 第151期:感觉失败及寻找幸福(13)
Not a small topic this is, finding happiness. But in some ways I think it's the simplest of all. Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a poem for her children. It's called Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward. And she says at the end, Live not for bat
名人励志英语演讲 第152期:感觉失败及寻找幸福(14)
The lesson here is clear, and that is, if you're hurting, you need to help somebody ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody ease pain. And when you're in a mess, you get yourself out of the mess helping somebody out of theirs. And in the pr
名人励志英语演讲 第153期:感觉失败及寻找幸福(15)
So, I know this--that whether you're an actor, you offer your talent in the way that most inspires aret. If you're an anatomist, you look at your gift as knowlege and service to healing. Whether you've been called, as so many of you here today gettin
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155期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(1)
Thank you! My name is Bono and I am a rock star. Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited. And I'm that guy. I'd just like to say to the parents, your children are safe, your country is safe, the FCC has taught me a
名人励志英语演讲 第156期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(2)
I think I guess it was at that point when your trustees decided to give me their highest honor. Doctor of Laws, wow! I know it's an honor, and it really is an honor, but are you sure? Doctor of Law, --you know, all I can think about is the laws I've
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
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
