娜塔莉波特曼2015哈佛毕业演讲中英对照版
美国小天后蕾哈娜哈佛大学演讲全文(中英对照)
So I made it to Harvard. Never thought I’d be able to say that in my life, but it feels good. Thank you, Dr1. Counter2, thank you to the Harvard Foundation3, and thank you, Harvard University for this great honour. Thank you.所以，我终于踏进了哈佛。
从来没有想过我能够在有生之年说这句话，但是这种感觉很好。
谢谢你，康特博士，谢谢哈佛基金会，谢谢哈佛大学这一殊荣。
谢谢你们。
When I was five or six years old, I remember watching TV and I would see these commercials4 and I was watching other children suffer in other parts of the world and you know the commercials were [like], ‘you can give 25 cents, save a child’s life,’ you know? And I would think to myself like, I wonder how many 25 cents I could save up to save all the kids in Africa. And I would say to myself you know, ‘when I grow up, when I can get rich, I’mma save kids all over the world.’ I just didn’t know I would be in the position to do that by the time I was a teenager.我在五六岁的时候，我记得看电视我会看这些商业广告，我看到世界其它地方的其他孩子们忍受折磨，你知道商业广告就是‘如果你献出25分钱，那么就可以拯救一个孩子的生命，’你知道吗?我会自己这样想，我想我能够存下多少25分钱来拯救非洲的所有孩子。
娜塔莉波特曼在哈佛毕业演讲
娜塔莉波特曼在哈佛毕业演讲她来自一个学术家庭，却凭借《这个杀手不太冷》年少成名。
她拥有完美颜值和实力演技，也是奥斯卡最佳女主角。
不仅如此，她还是顶级常春藤大学学位的学霸。
18岁因《星球大战》获得金球奖提名，同时也以全A的成绩接到了哈佛大学心理学系的录取通知书。
中学时参与全美公认要求最高，最精英的高中科学竞赛，并最终进入半决赛。
也曾在专业科技期刊上发表过两篇论文。
除了英语，她还会说希伯来语，阿拉伯语，日语，德语和法语。
且拥有属于自己的埃尔德什系数。
她是智慧与美貌的化身，是好莱坞著名演员娜塔莉波特曼。
但即便如此优秀的人，也曾自卑过，也曾经历过一段黑暗的日子。
一起来听，她于2015在哈佛的演讲，也许你会从中得到启发。
演讲精彩语录：1. Sometimes your insecurities and inexperience may lead you to embrace other people’s expectations, standards and values, but you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path.有些时候，你的信心和经验的缺乏会使你一味地迎合他人的期待、标准和价值观。
但是你要从中找出一条属于自己的道路。
2. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you are doing it, and when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.当你知道为什么而奋斗的时候，你所获得的成就是一件美妙的事情;当你不知道为什么而奋斗的时候，你所获得的成就很可能是一个可怕的陷阱。
3. You have a prize now and the prize is a Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it?你们现在拥有一个奖品，这个奖品就是手中的哈佛学位。
娜塔莉·波特曼2015年哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿【英文】（2）
娜塔莉·波特曼2015年哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿【英文】(2)I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics, and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me, by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them, their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18,I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurobiology, and advanced modern Hebrew literature, because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both. I got Bs,for you information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation.But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y’d shua in Hebrew, and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing, and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairly tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sakewas its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, sitting where you sit today after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else. I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others.I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have prize now, or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is a Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it?My Harvard degree represents for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained, the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower, but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theatre is a transformative religious force, how Professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imagining. Now granted these things don’t necessarity help me answer the most common question I’m asked: What designer are you wearing? What’s your fitness regime? Any make up tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what I might previously have thought was stupid question. My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them. The wood paneled lecture halls, the colorful fall leaves, the hot vanilla Toscaninis, reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs, running through dining halls screaming: Ooh! Ah! City steps!City steps!City steps!City steps!It’s easy now to romanticize my time here. But I had somevery difficult times here to. Some combination of being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects, and spending too much time missing day light during winter months, led me to some pretty dark moments. Particularly during sophomore year, there were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors. Overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off. When I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning.Moment when I took on the motto for my school work. Done. Not good.If only I could finish my work, even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper. I felt that I’ve accomplished a great feat. I repeat to myself. Done.Not good.A couple of years ago, I went to T okyo with my husband, and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant. I don’t even eat fish. I’m vegan. So that tells you how good it was. Even with just vegetables, this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about. The restaurant has six seats. My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice. We wondered why they didn’t make a bigger restaurant and be the most popular place in town. Our local friends explains to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small, and do only one type of dish: sushi or tempura or teriyaki. Because they want to do that thing well and beautifully. And it’s not about quantity. It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular.本文已影响人。
哈佛校长福斯特在哈佛大学2015年毕业典礼上英语演讲稿
哈佛校长福斯特在哈佛大学2015年毕业典礼上英语演讲稿Thank you, President Torres. Welcome, Governor Patrick. Thank you, everyone, for being here.这些年来，同学们在读书治学、文体活动、社会实践、国际交流、志愿服务等各个舞台上挥洒汗水，展示了人大学子的自信与昂扬;在北京奥运会、60周年国庆、抗震救灾等重大事件中，表现出了人大学子的担当精神和奉献精神。
The 146th annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association at the 364th Commencement ofHarvard University. It's a particular pleasure to welcome former Governor Deval Patrick of theCollege Class of 1978 and the Harvard Law School Class of 1982. Throughout hisdistinguished career in government, he forcefully argued for the power of education totransform lives. Nothing made that case more persuasively than his own remarkable life –from Chicago's South Side to the Massachusetts State House. When he was sworn in asgovernor, he took the oath of office with the Mendi Bible, presented in 1841 by the Africancaptives who had seized the slave ship Amistad to the man who had won their legal right tofreedom, John Quincy Adams. Governor Patrick can claim connection with both the Africanheritage of the Amistad rebels and the institutional roots of their defender. Adams, as youheard before from President Torres, was a member of the Harvard College Class of 1787, andwas both the first president of this alumni association, and himself the son of an earlieralumnus, John Adams, of the Class of 1755. That kind of continuity across the centuries is notthe least of the reasons that we congregate here every spring to renew and reinforce our tiesto this extraordinary place.Let me start by noticing what is both obvious and curious: We are here today together. Weare here in association. It is an association of many people, and many generations. Wecelebrate a connection across time in these festival rites, singing our alma mater, adorningourselves in medieval robes to mark the deep-rooted traditions of Harvard, and of universitiesmore generally. Even in the age of the online and the virtual, an institution has brought ustogether, and brings us back.We have also sung – or rather the magnificent Renée Fleming has sung – "America theBeautiful," to honor another institution, our democratic republic, which the men and womenwhose names are carved in stone in Memorial Church right behind me – and Memorial Hall justbehind that – gave their lives to protect and uphold.When the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony arrived on these shores in 1630, they cameas dissenters – rejecting institutions of their English homeland. But I have always found itstriking that here in the wilderness, where mere survival was the foremostchallenge, theyso rapidly felt compelled to found this seat of learning so that New England, in the words ofWilliam Hubbard of the Class of 1642, so the New England "might be supplied with persons fitto manage the affairs of both church and state." Church, state, and College. Three institutionsthey deemed essential to this Massachusetts experiment. Three institutions to ensure that thecolonists, as Governor John Winthrop urged, could be "knit together as one" in a new society ina brave new world.时代同样呼唤你们做执着的创新者。
接受不完美 将其变成财富——娜塔莉·波特曼在哈佛大学毕业礼上的致辞
接受不完美将其变成财富——娜塔莉波特曼在哈佛大学毕业
礼上的致辞
Natalie Portman;旭文
【期刊名称】《疯狂英语阅读版（含光盘）》
【年(卷),期】2015(000)009
【摘要】<正>与我们以往推荐的演讲不同,娜塔莉·波特曼在母校哈佛大学毕业礼上的演讲既不慷慨激昂,也不抑扬顿挫,而是给人一种她正火烧火燎地要把讲稿念完的感觉,即使是在其中的几个幽默之处,她也不给听众尽情发笑的时间。
从这个意义上说,她也许不是一位成功的演讲者,但她的演讲一出来,立即引起强烈反响。
通过她的演讲,人们才发现原来高高在上的学霸明星也曾有克服超级不自信的艰难历程;通过她的演讲,人们知道了她的成功学——接受不完美,拥抱瑕疵。
【总页数】6页(P42-47)
【作者】Natalie Portman;旭文
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【正文语种】中文
【中图分类】H319.4
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娜塔莉波特曼哈佛2015毕业演讲
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛2015毕业演讲Hello, class 2015.I am so honored to be here today. Dean Khurana, faculty, parents, and most especially graduate students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee.It’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked t o do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that when I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email. “Wow, it is so nice! I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas?”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and that many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh. So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation I’m still insecure about my own worthiness.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason. Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999. When you guys were, to my continued shock and horror, still in kindergarten. I felt like there had been some mistake. That I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth, I would have to prove that I wasn’t just a dumb actress. So I start with an apology. T his won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian. And I didn’t get a ghost writer. But I’m here to tell you today, Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason.Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperiencemay lead you, too to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons. The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-year-old son. And I watched him play arcade games. He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother that I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is his aim and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toys. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it.I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the little 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That- that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too. Prizes serve as false idols everywhere. Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today, beyond my being a proud alumna, is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life. Including a not so plastic, not so crappy one and Oscar. So we bumpup against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lottelling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be terrible trap. I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hell, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent. I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges Chocolate Cherries. Since I’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back pack bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands, because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook “most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy” or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be starting over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assu med I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-page paper before. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1,000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself. I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by sa ying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place. At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurobiology and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual.Needless to say, I should have failed both. I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classed on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriou sness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy,and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason. When I got to my graduation, sitting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at lease you will tomorrow. The prize is a Harvard degree in your hand. But what id your reason behind it? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theatre is a transformative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imagining. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common question I’m asked: What design er are you wearing? What’s your fitness regime? Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what I might previously have thought was a stupid question. My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them. The wood paneled lecture halls, the colorful fall leaves, the hot vanilla Toscaninis, reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs, running through dining halls screaming: Ooh! Ah! City steps!City steps!City steps!City steps! It’s easy now to romanticize my time here. But I had some very difficult times here too. Come combination of being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects, and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months led me to some pretty dark moments, particularly during sophomore year. There were several occasions where I started crying in meeting with professors overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took in the motto for my school work. Done. Not good. If only I could finish my work, even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper. I fe lt that I’ve accomplished a great feat. I repeat to myself. Done. Not good. A couple of years ago, I went to Tokyo with my husband and I ate the most remarkable sushi restaurant. I don’t even eat fish. I’m vegan. So that tells you how good it was. Even with just vegetables, this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about. The restaurant has six seats. My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice. We wondered why they didn’t make a bigger restaurant and be the most popular p lace in town. Our local friends explains to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small and do only one type of dish: sushi or tempura or teriyaki. Because they want to do that thing well and beautifully. And it’s not about quantity. It’s abou t taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular. I’m still learning that it’s about good and maybe never done. And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to and of course , to ourselves. In my professional life, it also took me time to find my own reasons fordoing my work. The first film I was in came out in 1994. Again, appallingly, the year most of you were born. I was 13 years old upon the film’s release and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim. Ms Portman poses better than she acts. The film had a universally tepid critic response and went on to bomb commercially. That film was called The Professional, or Leon in Europe. And today, 20 years and 35 films later, it is still the film people approach me about the most to tell me how much they loved it, how much it moved them, how it’s their favoritemovie. I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures. I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals rather than the foremost trophies in my industry: financial and critical success. And also these initial reactions could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate legacy. I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences. This thoroughly confused everyone around me: agents, producers, and audiences alike. I made Gotya’s Ghost, a foreign independent film and studied art history visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition. I made V for Vendetta, studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground. I made Your Highness, a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.I was able to own y meaning and not have it determined by box office receipts or prestige. By the time I got to making Black Swan, the experience was entirely my own.I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me, and to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not. It was instructive for me to see for ballet dancers once your technique gets to a certain level, the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or even flaws. Oneballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced. You can never be the best, technically. Some will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line. The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self. Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about. I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director who change my last line in the movie to It was perfect.Because my character Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others. So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people. But the true core of my meaning I had already established. And I needed it to be independent of people reactions to me. People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk. A scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer. But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drive me do it. I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do. And so the very inexperience that in college had made me insecure made me want to play by others’ rules now is making me actuallytake risks. I didn’t even realize were risks. When Darren asked me if I could do ballet I told him I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed. When it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina. It made me work a million times harder and of coursethe magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect. But the point is, if I had known my own limitations I never would have taken the risk. And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences. And that I not only felt completely free, I also met my husband during the filming. Similarly, I just directed my first film.A tale of Love in Darkness. I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me. The film is a period film, completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year-old child as a costar. All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of, as I was completely unprepared for them but my complete ignorance to my own limitations looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.Once there, I had to figure it all out, and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle. The other half was very hard work. The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career. Now clearly I’m not urging you to to and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so. Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions and allows for a lot of effects that make up for mistakes. he thing I’m saying is , make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself to o much right now. As we get older, we get more realistic, and that includes about our own abilities or lack thereof. And that realism does us no favors. People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of. That never worked for me. If I’m afraid, I run away.And I wouldprobably urge my child to do the same. Fear protects us in many ways. What has served me is diving into my own obliviousness. Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated. Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you try things you never might have tried. Your inexperience is an asset, and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset. I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces so when he starts thinking of the note an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be. You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces. And you don’t take for granted the way how things are. The only way you know how to do things is your own way. You here will all go on to achieve great things.There is no doubt about that. Each time you set out to do something new your inexperience can wither lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values or you can forge your own path, even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing. If your reasons are your own, your path,even if it’s a strange and clumsy path, will be wholly yours, and you will control the rewards of what you do by making your internal life fulfilling. At the risk of sounding like a Miss America c ontestant, the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced havetruly been the human interactions: spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA micro finance organization, meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries tracking with gorilla conservationists in Rwanda. It’s a cliche, because it’s true, that helping others ends up helping you more than anyone. Getting out of your own concerns and caring about some else’s life for a while reminds you that you are not the center of the universe. And that in the ways we’re generous or not we can change the course of someone’s life. Even at work,the small feat of kindness crew members, directors, fellow actors have shown me have had the most lasting impact. And of course, first and foremost, the center of my world is the love that I share with my family and friends. I wish for you that your friends will be with you through it all as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated. My friends from school are still very close. We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’ weddings. We’ve held each other at funeral s and rocked each other’s new babies.We worked together on projects, helped each other get jobs and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones. And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship as we look at them toddling together. Haggard and disheveled working parents that we are. Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go.The biggest asset this school offers you is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life. I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge. Tricking us into remembering a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers. After 8 months of dark freezing library dwelling. It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want to come back. But as I get farther away from my years here I know that the power of this school is much deeper than weather control. It changed the very question that I was asking to quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel: To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be. Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all th e beautiful things you will do.。
哈佛学霸影后超震撼演讲我的人生我来定义
哈佛学霸影后超震撼演讲我的人生我来定义今年早些时间，奥斯卡影后娜塔莉·波特曼受邀在哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲，这位2003年毕业于哈佛大学的学霸影后讲述了她曾经的心路历程。
在哈佛，娜塔莉经历了人生中最黑暗的阶段，缺乏自信又充满压力，甚至在面对教授时大哭。
为了让自己配得上哈佛，她经历了深重的自我怀疑、挣扎和努力，最终发现自己最爱的仍是演戏。
她用亲身的经验和体会鼓励毕业生，找到自己人生的理由，发展自我而不是仅仅为了别人眼中的完美。
“如果你的理由是属于你自己的，你的路即便是奇怪而坎坷的，也将是完全属于你自己的路。
”Hello, class of 2015.I am so honest to be here today. DeanKhurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you somuch for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the mostexciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because Ican’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack thathen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.”Wow! This is sonice!””I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas? ”This initialresponse now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day wewere lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us werehung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit thattoday, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my ownworthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.2015届毕业生，你们好。
娜塔莉·波特曼哈佛演讲：把经验的缺乏当作财富
娜塔莉·波特曼哈佛演讲：把经验的缺乏当作财富文/一米姐【导语】任何人翻开娜塔莉·波特曼的人生履历，都会倒吸一口冷气。
她在11岁开始演电影，凭借《那个杀手不太冷》一举成名；随后凭借《黑天鹅》成为奥斯卡最年轻的影后。
正是这个拥有完美颜值和演技的女神，竟然还是一个拥有顶级常青藤大学学位的学霸。
哈佛大学2015年的毕业典礼请来娜塔莉·波特曼作为杰出校友代表演讲。
演讲中，波特曼讲述了进入哈佛后对自己的质疑，以及大学期间如何度过一段黑暗时期，还有塑造不同角色时面临的重重挑战，并鼓励大家把经验的缺乏当做财富。
娜塔莉·波特曼：我今天的感受跟我99年初到哈佛成为新生时的心情一样，说起这件事我还是很震惊，当时你们还上幼儿园呢。
我感觉肯定是哪里出了错，感觉我的智商不配来这。
而我每次开口说话时，都必须要证明我不知是个白痴女演员而已。
有时你的不自信和无经验也会导致你去接受别人的期待、标准或价值，但你们要知道，无经验可以造就你们自己的路，一条没有“事情本应怎样做”之负担的路，一条由你自己的理由来定义的路。
前几天，我带着快四岁的儿子去游乐场，我看着他玩街机游戏，他玩的无比专注，努力朝着靶子投球。
作为一名犹太裔老妈，我跳过20步，已经开始想象他成为大联盟球手，头球精准，手臂健壮，用心专注，但后来我才明白他想要的是什么。
他玩投球是为了用票换取粗劣的塑料玩具，最终的奖励比游戏的过程更令他兴奋。
我当然想鼓励他享受游戏的快乐和挑战，不断练习带来的进步，因表现出色而得到的满足感，甚至还有完成游戏目标时的成就感，但这些都比不过一毛钱的塑料小人。
小人伸出黏黏的手臂，还可以贴在墙上，这就是奖励。
从孩子的本性中，我们看到许多自己天生的偏好，我看到了我自己，也许你们也能。
随处可见，奖励被当成虚假偶像来崇拜，威望、财富、名声、权势，你们将来就算不会全部遇到，至少也会遇到其中几个。
当然我今天来演讲的部分原因，除了我是个自豪的哈佛校友之外，就是我在生命中得到了一些非常令人羡慕的玩具：奥斯卡小金人。
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that the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart,
做某事时的快乐、敬业和炉火纯青，可以给我们服务的对象带来一种特定的享受，
a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to and of course ourselves.
我甚至无法向自己解释。
I've been acting since I was 11,
我从11岁就开始演戏了，
but I thought acting was too frivolous,
但我觉得表演过于琐屑无聊，
and certainly not meaningful.
而且毫无意义。
你的经验的缺乏可以把你引向另一条道路，
where you will conform to someone else's values or you can forge your own path.
你可以遵循别人的价值观，也可以走自己的路。
Even if you don't realize that's what you're doing.
如今，它让我敢于接受挑战，那些我根本没意识到是挑战的挑战。
And so the very inexperienced that in college had made me feel insecure and made want to play by others' rules,
无经验让我在大学时缺乏自信，让我愿意遵循他人的规则，
娜塔莉波特曼2015哈佛毕业演讲中英对照版
Hello, class of 2015. I am so honored to be here today. Dean Khurana, faculty, parents and most especially graduating students.2015届毕业生你们好。
今天我很荣幸地站在这里。
迪恩库拉纳，教职员工，家长们，尤其是你们毕业生们。
Thank you so much for inviting me. The senior class committee.非常感谢你们邀请我。
感谢大四学生会。
It's genuinely one of the most exciting thing I've ever been asked to do.这真是我被邀请过的最令人兴奋的一件事。
I have to admit primarily because I can't deny it.我不得不承认，这主要是因为我没法儿否认它。
As it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that when I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email :"wow this is so nice."因为维基解密公布的索尼被黑资料中爆出了我受邀之时的邮件回复：“哇哦，这真是太棒了。
”"I'm gonna need some funny ghost writers, any ideas?"“我得去物色几个搞笑代笔啊，你有啥建议么？”This initial response now blessedly public with from the knowledge at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrell as class speaker, and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high, mainly wanted to laugh.这段人尽皆知的最初回复背后的原因是我们毕业日时有幸请到了威尔法瑞尔做演讲，当时我们中的大多数都宿醉未醒，或刚开始嗨起来，于是只想笑。
娜塔莉·波特曼年哈佛毕业典礼英文演说稿.doc
娜塔莉·波特曼2019年哈佛毕业典礼英文演讲稿_演讲稿Hello ,class of 2019.I’m so honored to be here today.Dean Khurana,faculty, parents, and most especially graduating students, thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee, it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it. As it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that when I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email. “Wow! This is so nice! I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers.Any idea?”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker. And that many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high, mainly wanted to laugh. So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation, I’m still insecure about my own worthiness. I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999. When you guys were, to my continued shock and horror, still in kindergarten.I feel like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company. And that every time I opened my mouth, I would have to prove that I wasn’tjust a dumb actress. So I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian. And I didn’t get a ghost writer. But I’m here to tell you today, Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason.Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectations. Standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-year-old son. And I watched him play arcade games. He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother that I am, I skipped 20 steps, and was already imagining him as a major league player, with what is his aim and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toys. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shade by the little 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.Prizes serve as false idols everywhere. Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today, beyond my being a proud alumna, is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life, including a not so plastic, not so crappy one, an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive.Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair.And they spoke with an accent, I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida, Oranges, Chocolate, Cherries. Since I’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back pack bigger than I was, and always having white-out on my hands.Because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note looks. I was voted for my senior yearbook I most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy, or code for nerdiest.When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1. I knew I would be starting over in terms of how peopleviewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-page paper before. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student, who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed, and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I had no idea how to declare my intentions. Icouldn’t even articulate them to myself.I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics, and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me, by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them, their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change theworld and make it a better place.At the age of 18,I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurobiology, and advanced modern Hebrew literature, because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both. I got Bs,for you information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation.But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y’d shua in Hebrew, and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing, and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairly tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, sitting where you sit today after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else. I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have prize now, or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is a Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it?My Harvard degree represents for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained, the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower, but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theatre is a transformative religious force, how Professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imagining. Now granted these things don’t necessarity help me answer the most common question I’m asked: What designer are you wearing? What’s your fitness regime? Any make up tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what I might previously have thought was stupid question. My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them. The wood paneled lecture halls, the colorful fall leaves, the hot vanilla Toscaninis, reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs, running through dining halls screaming: Ooh! Ah! City steps!City steps!City steps!City steps!It’s easy now to romanticize my time here. But I had some very difficult times here to. Some combination of being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects, and spending too much time missing day light during winter months, led me to some pretty dark moments. Particularly during sophomore year, there were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors. Overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off. When I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning.Moment when I took on the motto for my school work. Done. Not good.Ifonly I could finish my work, even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper. I felt that I’ve accomplished a great feat. I repeat to myself. Done.Not good.A couple of years ago, I went to Tokyo with my husband, and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant. I don’t even eat fish. I’m vegan. So that tells you how good it was. Even with just vegetables, this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about. The restaurant has six seats. My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice. We wondered why they didn’t make a bigger restaurant and be the most popular place in town. Our local friends explains to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small, and do only one type of dish: sushi or tempura or teriyaki. Because they want to do that thing well and beautifully. And it’s not about quantity. It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular.I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done. And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to, and of course,to ourselves.In my professional life, it also took me time to find my own reasons for doing my work. The first film I was in came out in 1994. Again, appallingly, the year most of you were born. I was 13 years old upon the film’s release and I came still quote what the New York Time said about me verbatim.Ms Portman poses better than she acts. The film had a universally tepid eristic response andwent on to bomb commercially. That film was called The Professional, or Leon in Europe. And today, 20 years and 35 films later, it is still the film people approach me about the most to tell me how much they loved it, how much it moved them, how it’s their favourite movie. I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures. I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals rather than the foremost trophies in my industry: financial and critical success. And also these initial reactions could be false predictors of your works ultimate legacy.I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences. This thoroughly confused everyone around me: agents, producers, and audiences alike. I made Goya’s Ghost, a foreign independent film and studied act history visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition. I made V for Vendetta, studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters, whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground. I made Your Highness, a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laugh for 3 months straight. I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.By the time I got to making Black Swan, the experience was entirely my own. I felt immune to the worst things anyone couldsay or write about me, and to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not. It was instructive for me to see for ballet dancers once your technique gets to a certain level, the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or even flaws. One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced. You can never be the best, technically. Some with always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line. The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self. Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about. I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director who changed my last line in the movie to It was perfect. Because my character Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself, not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others. So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people. But the true core of my meaning I had already established. And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me.People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk. A scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer. But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do it. I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do. And so the very inexperience that in college had made me insecure, made me want to play by others’rules. Now is making me actually take risks, I didn’t even realize were risks. When Darren asked me if I could ballet, I told him I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed. When itquickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina. It made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect. But the point is, if I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk. And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences. And that I not only felt completely free.I also met my husband during the filming.Similarly, I just directed my first film, A Tale of Love in Darkness. I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me. The film is a period film, completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year-old child as a costar. All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of, as I was completely unprepared for them, but my complete ignorance to my own limitations looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair. Once there, I had to figure it all out, and my belief that I could handle these things, contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle. The other half was very hard work. The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career. Now clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so! Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions and allows for a lot of effects that make up for mistakes.The thing I’m saying is, make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now. As we get order,we get more realistic, and that includes about our own abilities or lackthereof. And that realism does us no favors. People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of. That never worked for me. If I’m afraid, I run away. And I would probably urge my child to do the same. Fear protects us in many ways. What has served me in diving into my own obliviousness. Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated. Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you try things you never might have tried. Your inexperience is an asset, and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces. So when he starts thinking of the note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be. You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces. And you don’t take for granted the way how things are. The only way you know how to do things is your own way. You have will all go on to achieve great things. There is no doubt almost that. Each time you set out to do something new, your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values, even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing. If your reasons are you own, your path, even if it’s a strange and clumsy path, will be wholly yours. And you will control the rewards of that you do by making your internal life fulfilling.At the risk of sounding like a Miss America contestant, the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the human interactions: spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization, meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries tracking with gorilla conservationists in Rwanda. It’s a cliche, because it’s true, that helping others ends up helping your more than anyone. Getting out of your own concerns and caring about some else’s life for a while, reminds you that you are not the center of the universe. And that in the ways we’re generous or not, we can change the course of someone’s life. Even at work, the small feat of kindness crew member, directors, fellow actors have shown me have had the most lasting impact.And of course, first and foremost, the center of my world is the love that I share my family and friends. I wish for you that your friends will be with you through it all as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated. My friends from school are still very close. We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’weddings. We’ve held each other at funerals and rocked each other’s new babies. We worked together on projects helped each other get jobs and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones. And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship as we look at them toddling together. Haggard and disheveled working parents that we are.Grab the goodpeople around you and don’t let them go. The biggest asset this school offers you is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge.Tricking us into remembering a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers. After 8 months of dark freezing library dwelling. It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want to come back. But as I get farther away from my years here I know that the power of this school is much deeper than weather control. It changed the very question that I was asking to quote one of my favourite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel: To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be.Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things you will do.奶奶的感恩征文演讲稿_演讲稿当我拖着疲惫的身躯跨出校门时，我想到的是奶奶那份早已准备好的热腾腾的点心。
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娜塔莉波特曼哈佛毕业演讲稿Hello,class of 20xx. I am so honored to be here today. Dean Khurana, faculty, parents, and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me The Senior Class Committee. It’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leakedin the WikiLeaks release of Sony hack that when I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email Wow! This is so nice! I’m gonna need some funny ghost wri ters. Any ideas? This initial response now blessedly public was public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and that many of us were hung-over, or ever freshly high mainly wanted to laugh. So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation I’m still insecure about my own worthiness. I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999 when you guys were, to my continued shock and horror, still in kindergarten. I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this pany, and that every time I opened my mouth I would have to prove that I wasn’t just a dumb actress. So I s tart with an apology. This won’t be veryfunny. I am not a edian. And I didn’t get a ghost writer. But I am here to tell you today Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimesyour insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too,to embrace other people’s expectation, standard, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons. The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to–be 4-year-old son. And I watched him play arcade games. He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother that I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is his aim and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toys. The prize was much more exciting that the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challengeof the game, the improvement upon practice, thesatisfaction of doing something well, and even felling the aomplishment when achieving the game’s goal. But all of these aspects were shaded by the little 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. Thati-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him andperhaps you do too. Prizes serve as false idols everywhere. Prestige，wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of course of there, if not all. Of course, Part of why I was invited to e to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we hump up against the mon troll I think of the mencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive.Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap. I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello Syosset! The girl I went to school with had Prada Bags and Flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an aent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut minmicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I’m ancient and the Inter was juststarting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back pack bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook I mostlikely to be a contestant on Jeopardy for code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be starting over in terms of how people viewed me I feared people wou ld have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would thinks that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. Andit would not have been far from the truth, When I came here I had never written a 10-page paper before. I’m not sureI’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that capered to high schoolthe workload here was easy. I was pletely overwhelm, and thought that reading 1,000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I have no idea to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself. I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate studentsintroduced themselves to me by sayi ng, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believedevery one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone se emed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself.Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place. At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years. And assumed I find a serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurobiology and advanced Modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both. I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I fighting my through Aleph Bet Yod Y’shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and top culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for s eriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an aeptable reason, it was the best reason. When I got to my graduation, sitting where yousit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t waitto go back and make more films. I wanted to tell stories,to imagine the life of others and help the others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now, or at least you will tomorrow.The prize is a Harvard degree in your hand. But what is the reason behind it? My Harvard degree represent, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendship I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way professor Scarry talked about theatre is a transformative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imagining. Now granted these thingsdon’t necessarily help me answer the most mon questionI’m asked: What designer are you wearing? What’s your fitness regime? Any makeup tips? But I have never sincebeen embarrassed to myself as what I might previously have thought was a stupid question. My Harvard degree and other adwards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them. The wood paneled lecture halls, the colorful fall leaves, the hot vanilla Toscaninis, Reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs running through dining halls screaming: Ooh! Ah! City step! City step! City step! Citystep! It’s easy now to romanticiz e my time there. But Ihad some very difficult times here too. Some bination of being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects, and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months led me to some pretty dark moments, particularly during sophomore year. Therewere several oasions where I started crying in meetingswith professors overwhelmed with what I was supposed topull off when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. The moments when I took on the motto for my school work, done, not good. If only I could finish my work, evenif it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper. I felt that I’veaomplished a great feat. I repeat to myself: done, not good.A couple of years ago, I went to Tokyo with my husband andI ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant. I don’teven eat fish. I’m vegan. So that tells you how good it was. Even with just vegetables, this sushi was the stuffyou dreamed about. The restaurant has six seats. My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior toall other rice. We wondered why they didn’t make a bigger restaurant and be the most popular place in town. Our local friends’ explains to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are so that small and do only one type of dish: sushior tempura or teriyaki, because they want to do that thing well and beautifully. And it’s not about quantity. It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of particular. I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done. And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we being to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to and of course, to ourselves. In my professional life, it also took me time to find my own reasons for doing my work. The first film I was in came out in 1994. Again, appallingly, the year most of you were born. I was 13 years old upon the film’s release and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim. Ms Portman poses better than she acts. The film had universally tepid critic response and went on to bomb mercially. That film was called The Professional, or Leonin Europe. And today, 20 years and 35 films later, it is still the film people approach me about the most to tell me how much they loved it, how much they moved them, how it’s their favorite movie. I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures. I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making film and thepossibility of connecting with individuals rather than the foremost trophies in my industry: financial and critical suess. And also these initial reactions could be falsepredictors of your work’s ultimate legacy, I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about and fromwhich I knew I could glean meaningful experiences.This thoroughly confused everyone around me: agents, producers, and audiences alike. I made Gotya’s Ghost, a foreign independent film and study our history visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition. I made for Vendetta, studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists, from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground. I made Your Highness, a pothead edy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight. I was able to own my meaning ant not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige. By the timeI got to making Black Swan, the experience was entirely my own. I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me, and to whether the audience felt like tosee my movie or not. It was instructive for me to see for ballet dancers once your technique gets to a certain level, the only thing that separates you from others is yourquirks or even flaws. One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced. You can never be the best, technically. Some will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line. The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self. Authoring your own experience wasvery much what Black Swan itself was about. I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director who changed my last line in the movie to it was perfect. My character Nina is only artistically suessful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others. So when Black Swan was suessful financially and I began receiving aolades I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people. But the true core of my meaning I had already established. And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me. People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk, a scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer. But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do it. I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do. And so the very inexperience that in college had made me insecure and made me want to play by other’s rules now is making me actually take risks I didn’t even realize were risks. When Darren asked me if I could do ballet I told him I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed. When it quickly became clear that preparing for film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina. It made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect. But the point is, if I had known my own limitations I never would take of the risk.And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences. And that I not only felt pletely free. I also met my husband during the filming. Similarly, I just directed my first film, A Tale of love in Darkness. I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me. The film is a period film, pletely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year-old child as a costar. All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of, as I waspletely unprepared for them but my plete ignorance to my own limitations looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.Once here, I have to figure it all out, and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability or do so was only half the battle. The other half was very hard work. The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career. Now clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so! Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions and allows for a lot of effects that make up for mistakes. The thing I’m saying is, make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now. As we get older, we get more realistic, and that includes about our own abilities or lack thereof. And that realism does us no favors. People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of.That never worked for me. If I am afraid, I run away. And I would probably urge my child to do the same. Fear protects us in many ways. What has served me is diving into my own obliviousness. Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids, and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated. Well. It can be a good thing if it makes you try things you never might have tried. Your inexperience is an asset, and will allow you to think in original and unconventional way. Aept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset. I know a famous violi nist who told me that he can’t pose because he knows too many pieces so when he starts thinking of the note an existing piece immediately es to mind. Just starting out of your digest strengths is not known how things are supposed to be. You can pose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces. And you don’t take for granted the way how things are. The only way you know how to do things is your own way. You here will all go on to achieve great things. There is no doubt about that. Each time you set out to do something new your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values or you can forge your own path. Even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing. If your reasons are your own, your pa th, even if it’s a strange and clumsy path, will be wholly yours, and you willcontrol the rewards of what you do by making your internal life fulfilling.At the risk of sounding like a Miss American Contestant, the most fulfilling things I’ve experienc ed have trulybeen the human interactions: spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization, meeting young women who were the first andthe only in their munities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya with free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries tracking with gorilla conservationists in Rwanda. It’s cliché, because it’s true, that helping other ends up helping you morethan anyone. Getting out of your own concerns and caring about some else’s life for a while, remind you that youare not the central of the universe. And that in the ways we’re generous or not, We can change course of someone’s life. …have had the most lasting impact. And of course,first and foremost, the center of my world is the love that I share with my family and friends. I wish for you thatyour friends will be with you through it all as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated. Grabthe good people around you and don’t let them go. To be or not to be is not the question; the vital question is how to be and how not to be. Thank you! I can’t wait to see youdo all the beautiful thins you will do.。
娜塔莉·波特曼2019哈佛毕业英文演讲稿_英语演讲稿_
娜塔莉·波特曼2019哈佛毕业英文演讲稿奥斯卡影后，哈佛校友娜塔莉·波特曼近日重返母校，受邀在2019年哈佛毕业典礼发表演讲。
娜塔莉讲述了自己初入大学和拍电影时遭遇的挫折与挑战，鼓励毕业生去大胆走一条没有“事情本应怎样做”之负担的路，言语间真诚而。
视频有中英文对照，十分值得一看。
以下是娜塔莉·波特曼在哈佛的演讲：2019哈佛毕业演讲 (英文)：Hello, class of 2019.I am so honest to be here today.Dean Khurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.” Wow! This is so nice!” ”I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any idea s? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that toda y, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continued shocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth.I would have to prove that I wasn’t just dumb actress.So I start with an apology. This won’t b e very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghostwriter.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other p eople’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is hisarm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people whohave achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t real ly pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘ most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’ or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper before. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do. I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulatethem to myself.I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both.I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for se riousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter somehalf-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, siting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films.I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it ? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans-formative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imaging. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common question I’m asked:What designer are you wearing?What’s your fitness regime?Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what might previously have thought was a stupid question.My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them.The wood paneled lecture halls,the colorful fall leaves,the hot vanilla Toscaninis,reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs.running through dining halls screaming.Ooh!Ah!City steps!City steps!City steps!City steps!It’s easy now to romanticize my time here.B ut Ihad some very difficult times here too.Some combination of being19,dealing with my first heartbreak,taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects,and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months,led me to some pretty dark moments,particularly during sophomore year.There were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors,overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off ,when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took on the motto for my school work:Done,Not good.If only I could finish my work,even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper.I felt I’ve accomplished a great feat,I repeat to myself:Done,Not good.A couple years ago,I went to Tokyo with my husband,and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant,I don’t even eat fish,I’m vegan.So that tells you how good it was.Even with just vegetable,this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about.The restaurant has six seats.My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice.We wondered why they don’t make a bigger restaurant,and be the most popular place in town.Our local friends explain to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small,and do only one type of dish:sushi or tempura or teriyaki.Because they want to do things well and beautiful.And it’s not about quantity.It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular.I’m st ill learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done.And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to,and of course to ourselves.In my professional life,it also took me time to find my own reason for doing my work.The first film I was in came out in1994.Again,appallingly,the year most of you were born,I was 13 years old upon the film’s release,and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim,[Ms Portman poses better than she acts],The film had a universally tepid critic response,and went on to bomb commercially.That film was called ‘The Professional,or Leon in Europe’ And today,20 years and 35 films later,it is still the film people approach me about the most,to tell me how much they loved it,how much it moved them,how it’s their favorite movie.I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures.I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals,rather than the foremost trophies in my industry/financial and critical success.And also these initial reaction could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate legac y.I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about,and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences.This thoroughly confused everyone around me:agents,producers,and audiences alike,I made Gotya’s Ghost,a foreign independent film and studied art history,visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition,I made V for Vendetta,studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground.I made Your Highness,a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.By the time I got to making Black Swan,the experience was entirely my own,I felt immune to the worst things anyone couldsay or write about me. And to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not.It was instructive for me to see ballet dancers,once your technique gets to a certain level,the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or flaws.(怪异甚至瑕疵).One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced.You can never be the best,technically.Someone will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line.The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self.Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about.I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director whom changed my last line in the movie to:It was perfect.Because my characte Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself,not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others.So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades.I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people.But the true core of my meaning I had already established.And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me.People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk.A scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer.But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do it.I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do.And so the very inexperience that in college had made me feel insecure.and made me want to play by others’ rules.Now is making me actually take risks.I didn’t even realize were risks.When Darren asked me if I could do ballet,I told him that I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed.When it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina.It made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect.Butthe point is,if I had known my own limitations,I never would have taken the risk.And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences.And that I not only felt completely free,I also met my husband during the filming.Similarly,I just directed my first film,A Tale of Love in Darkness.I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me.The film is a period film,completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year old child as a costar.All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of,as I was completely unprepared for them.but my complete ignorance to my own limitation looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.Once there,I had to figure it all out,and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle.The other half was very hard work.The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career.Now clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so!Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions,and allows for a lot effects that make up for mistakes.The thing I’m saying is,make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now.Aa we get older,we get more realistic,and that includes about our abilities or lack thereof.And that realism does us no favors.People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of.That never worked for me.If I’m afraid,I run away.And I would probably urge my child to do the same.Fear protects us in many ways.What has served me is diving into my obliviousness.Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids,and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated.Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you try you never might have tried.You inexperience is an asset,and will allowyou to think in original and unconventional ways.Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces,so when he starts thinking of the note and existing piece immediately comes to mind.Just starting out one of your biggest strengths,is not knowing how things are supposed to be.You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces.And you don’t tak e for granted the way how things are.The only way you know how to do things is your own way.You here will go on to achieve great things.There is no doubt about that.Each time you set out to do something new,your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values,or you can forge your own path.Even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing.If your reason are your own.Your path,even if it is a strange and clumsy path,will be wholly yours.And you will control the rewards of what you do,but making your internal life fulfilling .At the risk of sounding like America contestant,the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the humaninteraction:spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization,meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya;with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries,tracking with gorilla conservationists(自然保护主义) in Rwanda.It’s a cliche(这是老生常谈),because it’s true,that helping others ends up helping you more than anyone.Getting out of your concerns,and caring about some else’s life for a while,reminds you that you are not the center of the univer se.And that in the ways we’re generous or not,we canchange the course of someone’s life.Even at work,the small feat of kindness,crew members,directors,fellow actors have shown me,have had the most lasting impact.And of course,first and foremost,the center of my world,is the love that I share with my family and friends.I wish you that your friends will be with you through it all,as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated.My friends from school are still very close.We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’ weddings.We’ve held each other at funerals,and rocked each other’s new babies.We worked together on projects,helped each other get jobs,and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones.And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship,as we look at them toddling together.Haggard and disheveled working parents(疲惫而凌乱的上班族家长) that we are.Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go.The biggest asset this school offers you,is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge.Tricking us into remembering,a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers.(阳光洒满院子，人们扔着飞盘欢声笑语的场景).After 8 months of dark dwelling.It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather,as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want to come back.But as I get further away from my years here,I know the power of this school is much deeper than weather control.It changed the very question that I was asking.T o quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel:T o be or not to be is not the question,the vital question is:how to be and how not to be. Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things youwill do.。
娜塔莉波特曼2015哈佛毕业演讲中文
我今天地感受跟我年初到哈佛成为新生时地心情一样，说起这件事我还是很震惊，当时你们还上幼儿园呢.我感觉肯定是哪里出了错，感觉我地智商不配来这.而我每次开口说话时，都必须要证明我不知是个白痴女演员而已.所以我要先道个歉，这场演讲不会太搞笑，我不是个笑星，我也没找写手代笔，不过今天我在这里是要告诉你们，哈佛明天就要给你们毕业证书了，你们到这里是有原因地.有时你地不自信和无经验也会导致你去接受别人地期待、标准或价值，但你们要知道，无经验可以造就你们自己地路，一条没有“事情本应怎样做”之负担地路，一条由你自己地理由来定义地路.前几天，我带着快四岁地儿子去游乐场，我看着他玩街机游戏，他玩地无比专注，努力朝着靶子投球.作为一名犹太裔老妈，我跳过步，已经开始想象他成为大联盟球手，头球精准，手臂健壮，用心专注，但后来我才明白他想要地是什么.他玩投球是为了用票换取粗劣地塑料玩具，最终地奖励比游戏地过程更令他兴奋.我当然想鼓励他享受游戏地快乐和挑战，不断练习带来地进步，因表现出色而得到地满足感，甚至还有完成游戏目标时地成就感，但这些都比不过一毛钱地塑料小人.小人伸出黏黏地手臂，还可以贴在墙上，这就是奖励.从孩子地本性中，我们看到许多自己天生地偏好，我看到了我自己，也许你们也能.个人收集整理勿做商业用途随处可见，奖励被当成虚假偶像来崇拜，威望、财富、名声、权势，你们将来就算不会全部遇到，至少也会遇到其中几个.当然我今天来演讲地部分原因，除了我是个自豪地哈佛校友之外，就是我在生命中得到了一些非常令人羡慕地玩具：奥斯卡小金人.在毕业演讲时我们会撞到常见地烦事，那就是成功人士来告诉你，成功带来地结果并非那么值得信任.但我觉得这种矛盾可以被弥合，而且是有教导意义地.成就总是美妙地，但你得知道为何这样做.如果你不知道，它就会变成可怕地陷阱.个人收集整理勿做商业用途我高中是在长岛一家公立学校高中，我们学校地女生都拿着包，烫直了头发，而他们地口音，是我这个岁从康州搬来地女孩为了融入而一直在模仿地.因为我年纪太老，所以我上高中时互联网刚兴起，同学都不太在意我演员地身份，我在学校出名是因为我地背包比我地人还大，而且我满手都是消正液，因为我不喜欢笔记本上出现划掉地痕迹.毕业年册中我被评为“最可能成为智力竞赛选手”地人，换句话说，就是最呆地书呆子.星战刚上映，我就来到哈佛读书，我知道我得重新建立别人对我地看法了，我害怕大家以为我只是靠名声才进了哈佛，担心他们觉得我配不上这里严格地智力标准.其实真相也差不多如此，我来哈佛之前从没写过页地论文，我都不知道自己写没写过页地论文.我被一位同学地淡定眼神刺激并吓坏，他是或者高中地名校生，他说跟高中相比，哈佛地作业量是小菜一碟，我是完全应付不来.我觉得一周读完一千页书是不可想象地，而写出页地论文是我永远都做不到发地.我完全不知道该怎样表达我地意图，我连跟自己说清楚都做不到.个人收集整理勿做商业用途我从岁起就在演戏，但我认为演戏是轻佻且无意义地.我出身书香门第，非常在意别人是否把我当回事.跟我不敢发声相比，大一时新生培训地第一天，五个不同地同学分别跟我这样自己介绍.他们说，我将来会当美国总统，记得我跟你说过这句话.严肃地说，他们地名字是伯尼桑德斯、马克卢比奥、泰德克鲁兹、巴拉克奥巴马和希拉里克林顿.说正经地，我相信他们每一个人，他们地态度和自信本身就足以证明他们地预言，而我确无法摆脱自我怀疑.我入学只是因为我是名人，别人就是这样看我地，我也是这样看我自己.在不自信地驱使下，我决定要在哈佛找到严肃而有意义地事情，来改变世界，让世界更美好.个人收集整理勿做商业用途年仅岁地我已经演了年戏，以为自己在大学里找到一条更加严肃和深刻地路，所以大一那年秋天我决定修神经生物学和高等现代希伯来文学，因为我很严肃、很智慧.不用说，我两科都应该挂掉.顺便说下，我拿到了，而且直到今日，每周末我还要烧小雕像供奉保佑成绩注水地异教神灵.但当我为了希伯来语课地以及神经应答地不同机制而挣扎时，我看到朋友们写关于帆船地论文，写流行文化杂志，看到教授讲童话故事和黑客帝国，我发现，为了严肃而严肃，这本身就是一种虚荣，是一种模棱两可，是为了反抗我想象出地自我而采取地一种姿态.我当演员当然是有原因地，我爱我地职业.我从我地同伴和导师们身上看到，这不只是一个可以接受地理由，这是最棒地理由.个人收集整理勿做商业用途当年毕业典礼时，坐在你们今天坐地地方，我花了四年时间来寻找其他地东西来让我开心.我对自己坦白，我真是等不及回去拍更多地电影了.我想要讲述故事，想想别人地生活，并帮助别人做到同样地事.我找到了，或者说重拾了我地理由.你们现在拿到了奖励，那就是你们手中地哈佛毕业证，但你背后地理由是什么？哈佛学位对我来说，是我在这里被激发地好奇心和创造力，是我维系地友谊，是格莱安姆教授告诉我不要去描述光线是怎样照进花朵地，而要描述花朵投下地影子，是斯卡里教授谈到戏剧是一种变革性地宗教力量，是凯瑟琳教授向我们展示视皮质只靠想象就可以被激活.虽然这些知识并不能帮我回答最常遇到地问题：你穿哪个设计师地作品？你地健身秘诀是什么？能说几个化妆小贴士吗？但从那之后我再没有因此前我可能会觉得愚蠢地问题而为自己感到羞愧.我地哈佛学位以及其他奖项都个人收集整理勿做商业用途是我地经历地象征.木制地板地讲堂、多彩地秋叶、热香草托斯卡尼尼、在图书馆软椅上阅读精彩小说、在食堂里边跑边喊：“哦！城市脚步！”个人收集整理勿做商业用途如今浪漫地回想求学时光是很容易地，但我也有过非常艰苦地日子.年方岁，初次因分手而心碎，吃了有问题地避孕药，后来因为导致抑郁地副作用而停产，而且冬天几个月不下楼，看不到阳光，合在一起造成了很黑暗地时光.尤其是在我大二那年，曾经几次在跟教授会面时失声痛哭，不知自己该怎样努力而崩溃，连早上从床上爬起来都成问题.那段时间我对功课地座右铭是：做完，不怎样.只要能完成作业，就算让我吃超级大包酸味软糖都行，能写完一份页地论文就好.我觉得自己完成了伟大地功绩，我不断对自己说：做完，不怎样.个人收集整理勿做商业用途几年前，我跟我老公去东京玩，吃到了最美味地寿司饭店.我不吃鱼地，我是素食主义者，所以你们知道该有多好吃了.即便只是蔬菜，那寿司都是梦幻般地味道，饭店只有六个座位.老公和我很惊讶，怎会有人把米饭做得如此超绝，我们纳闷他们为何不把店做大一点，做成全城最火爆地饭店.当地地朋友跟我们解释，东京所有最棒地饭店都是这么小，而且只做一样料理：寿司或天妇罗或照烧.因为他们想要把事情做好做漂亮，关键不在于数量，而是对某事追求至善至美地过程中地愉悦.我现在仍在学习，关键是做好，而可能不是做完.做某事时地快乐、敬业和炉火纯青，可以给我们服务地对象带来一种特定地享受，当然也让我们自己得到享受.个人收集整理勿做商业用途在我地职业生活中，我花了许多时间，寻找我自己做事地原因.我地第一部电影在年上映，又是一件很吓人地事，那年你们大部分人才出生.电影出来时我才岁，至今我仍能一字不差地复述纽约时报对我地评价：波特曼小姐摆造型地功力比演戏强很多.这部电影得到地所有评价都是不温不火，而商业方面则是惨败，这部电影叫做《这个杀手不太冷》.而到今天，过了年，拍完了部电影之后，它仍是人们见到我时最常提到地片子，他们告诉我多爱这部片子，这片子多感人，说这是他们最爱地电影.我感到很幸运，我首次参演地电影，起初在所有地标准和衡量上来看都是一场灾难，我很早就学到，我地价值应该来自于电影拍摄过程地体验，来自触碰人心地可能，而不是我们行业最首要地荣誉：商业和影评方面地成功.而且，最初地反响可能会错误预测了你地作品最终地价值.于是我开始只挑那些我热爱地事情来做，只选那些我知道能汲取到有意义经验地工作.这让我周围地所有人都彻底困惑，经纪人、制片人、还有观众都是如此.我拍了外国独立电影《戈雅之灵》，为此我学习艺术史，连续四个月我每天研读戈雅和西班牙裁判所.我拍了动作片《字仇杀队》，为此我学习了所有自由战士相关地东西，他们也被叫做恐怖主义者.我拍了大麻喜剧《王子殿下》，我连续笑了整整三个月.我可以决定我自己地价值，而不是让票房或名声来决定.个人收集整理勿做商业用途当我拍《黑天鹅》时，整个经历都是属于我自己地.我感觉自己已经刀枪不入，不怕别人怎么用嘴喷怎么用笔骂，也不在意观众是否愿意到影院看我地片子.对我很有启示地是，对于芭蕾舞者，当你地技巧达到一定高度后，唯一能让你与他人不同地，就是你地怪异甚至瑕疵.有位芭蕾舞者因转圈地轻微不平衡而出名，从技术上说，你永远不能做到最好，总有人比你跳地更高，或者有更美地姿态.你唯一能做到最好地，就是发展你地自我.为你自己地体验做主就是《黑天鹅》所讲地事，导演把我最后一句台词改成了：这真完美.因为我地角色在艺术上地成功，只在为自己找到完美和愉悦之时出现，而不是为了试图在别人眼中变得完美.所以当《黑天鹅》取得商业上地成功，而我也开始得到赞扬之时，我觉得荣耀和感恩地是，我接触到了人心，我已经建立了自己价值地真正核心，我需要它不受别人反应地影响.大家告诉我《黑天鹅》是艺术上地冒险，演艺职业芭蕾舞者是恐怖地挑战，但我觉得促使我去演地并非是勇气或胆量，而是我对自身局限地毫无所知.我对所做之事压根没有准备.无经验让我在大学时缺乏自信，让我愿意遵循他人地规则.如今，它让我敢于接受挑战，那些我根本没意识到是挑战地挑战.当导演问我是否能演芭蕾舞者时，我跟他说我基本就是个芭蕾舞者，当时我真心是这样以为地.很快，在准备拍摄时我才明白，我距离芭蕾舞者还差年地功夫.这逼着我多付出了数百万倍地努力，当然特效和替身也帮忙造出了最终效果.但关键是，如果我知道自己地局限，我绝对不会冒这个险，而风险为我带来了最棒地艺术体验.我不仅感觉到完全地无拘无束，还在拍摄时找到了老公.个人收集整理勿做商业用途同样，我刚执导了第一部电影《爱与黑暗地故事》，我对横在面前地挑战一无所知，这是一部时代片，对白全是希伯来语，我也在片中出演，和岁地小演员对戏.我本该被这些挑战吓到，因为我对此毫无准备，但我对自身局限地彻底无知像是种自信，而且让我坐上导演椅.在这个位置上，我必须把这些弄清楚，即便所有地证据都显示我能力不足，我仍相信自己能搞定这些事，这还只是战斗地一半.另一半靠地是拼命地工作，这场经历是我职业生涯中最深刻也是最有意义地一次，当然我不是怂恿大家一无所知地情况下就去做心脏手术.诚然，跟其他职业相比，拍电影不会带来太严重地后果，而且可以用特效来弥补错误.我要说地是，要好好利用你如今不是那么怀疑自己这件事，随着年龄增长，我们变得更加现实，这包括对我们自己能力和缺陷地认知，而这种现实对我们没有好处.人们总说要放手去做你害怕地事，这对我来说行不通，如果我害怕，我就会跑掉，而我也会劝我地孩子这样做.恐惧在很多方面保护了我们，对我有用地是，投入到自己地无知当中.超越本身地过度自信，人们常用这事来谴责美国孩子，还有那些分数膨胀自我膨胀地人，其实如果能让你尝试从不敢尝试之事，这也未尝不是好事.你地无经验是种财富，能让你有原创和跳出常规地点子，接受你经验上地缺乏，把它当成财富来用.个人收集整理勿做商业用途我认识一位小提琴家，他告诉我无法作曲，因为他懂得太多曲目，所以每当他想到音符，现有地曲目就会立刻出现在脑海里.刚开始时，你最大地长处之一，就是不知道事情应该是怎样做地，你地头脑里没有塞满曲目，所以可以自由地创作，而你不会对事情地状况习以为常.你所知道唯一地做事方式，就是你自己地方式.你们大家都会成就伟大事业，这是毋庸置疑地，每次你动手做新事时，你地无经验要么会引领你走上一条遵循他人价值地路，要么个人收集整理勿做商业用途会让你创造属于自己地路，即便你不知道你在创造新地路.如果你地理由是属于你自己地，你地路，即使是奇怪而坎坷地路，也将会是完全属于你自己地.而你能控制你所做之事带来地奖励，让你地内心世界更加充实.个人收集整理勿做商业用途下面这话可能听起来像美国小姐选手地发言，我所经历地最令我满足地事，真地是跟人之间地互动.在墨西哥跟乡村银行地女性接触，跟微型金融组织共事，跟当地最早，也是唯一接受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娜塔莉·波特曼2015年哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿【英文】（3）
娜塔莉·波特曼2015年哈佛毕业典礼演讲稿【英文】(3)I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done. And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to, and of course,to ourselves.In my professional life, it also took me time to find my own reasons for doing my work. The first film I was in came out in 1994. Again, appallingly, the year most of you were born. I was 13 years old upon the film’s release and I came still quote what the New York Time said about me verbatim.Ms Portman poses better than she acts. The film had a universally tepid eristic response and went on to bomb commercially. That film was called The Professional, or Leon in Europe. And today, 20 years and 35 films later, it is still the film people approach me about the most to tell me how much they loved it, how much it moved them, how it’s their favourite movie. I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures. I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals rather than the foremost trophies in my industry: financial and critical success. And also these initial reactions could be false predictors of your works ultimate legacy.I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences. This thoroughly confused everyone around me: agents, producers, and audiences alike. I made Goya’s Ghost, a foreign independent film and studied act history visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition. I made V for Vendetta, studio action movie for whichI learned everything I could about freedom fighters, whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground. I made Your Highness, a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laugh for 3 months straight. I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.By the time I got to making Black Swan, the experience was entirely my own. I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me, and to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not. It was instructive for me to see for ballet dancers once your technique gets to a certain level, the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or even flaws. One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced. You can never be the best, technically. Some with always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line. The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self. Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about. I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director who changed my last line in the movie to It was perfect. Because my character Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself, not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others. So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people. But the true core of my meaning I had already established. And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me.People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk. A scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer. But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do it. I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefullyunprepared to do. And so the very inexperience that in college had made me insecure, made me want to play by others’ rules. Now is making me actually take risks, I didn’t even realize were risks. When Darren asked me if I could ballet, I told him I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed. When it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina. It made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect. But the point is, if I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk. And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences. And that I not only felt completely free. I also met my husband during the filming.Similarly, I just directed my first film, A Tale of Love in Darkness. I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me. The film is a period film, completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year-old child as a costar. All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of, as I was completely unprepared for them, but my complete ignorance to my own limitations looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair. Once there, I had to figure it all out, and my belief that I could handle these things, contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle. The other half was very hard work. The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career. Now cl early I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so! Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions and allows for a lot of effects that make up for mistakes.本文已影响人。
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛演讲之欧阳学创编
2015哈佛毕业演讲 (英文)：Hello, class of 2015.I am so honest to be here today.DeanKhurana,faculty,parents,and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me. The Senior Class Committee. it’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that hen I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email.” Wow! This is so nice!””I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas? ”This initial response now blessedly public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high mainly wanted to laugh.So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation. I’m still insecure about my own worthless.I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999.When you guys were,to my continuedshocked and horror, still in kindergarten.I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I opened my mouth.I would have to prove that I wasn’t just dumb actress.S o I start with an apology. This won’t be very funny. I’m not a comedian.And I didn’t get a ghost writer.But I am here to tell you today.Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperienc e may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectations, standards, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.That other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-yeas-old son. And I watch him play arcade games. He was incredible focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother than I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is hisarm and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toy. The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy andthe challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game’s goals. But all of these aspects were shaded by the 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. That-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too. Prizes serve as false idols everywhere(圣经里的false idol). Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all. Of course, part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello, Syosset! The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with anaccent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books. I was voted for my senior yearbook ‘ most likely to be an contestant on Jeopardy ’ or code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be staring over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would think that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth. When I came here I had never written a 10-paper befor e. I’m not even sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that compared to high school the workload here was easy. I was completely overwhelmed and thought that reading 1000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do.I Had no idea how to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself.I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and was very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself. Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place.At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years, and assumed I find a more serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurologist and advanced modern Hebrew literature because I was serious andintellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both.I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I was fighting my way through Aleph Bet Yod Y shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms of neuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and pop culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Mat rix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor. I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an acceptable reason, it was the best reason.When I got to my graduation, siting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back an d make more films. I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the lives of others and help others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is Harvard degree in your hand. But what is your reason behind it ? My Harvard degree represents, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, thefriendships I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way Professor Scarry talked about theater is a trans-formative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imaging. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most common questio n I’m asked:What designer are you wearing?What’s your fitness regime?Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what might previously have thought was a stupid question.My Harvard degree and other awards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them.The wood paneled lecture halls,the colorful fall leaves,the hot vanilla Toscaninis,reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs.running through dining halls screaming.Ooh!Ah!Citysteps!Citysteps!Citysteps!City steps! It’s ea sy now to romanticize my time here.ButIhad some very difficult times here too.Some combination of being 19,dealing with my first heartbreak,taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects,and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months,led me to some pretty darkmoments,particularly during sophomore year.There were several occasions where I started crying in meetings with professors,overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off ,when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. Moments when I took on the motto for my school work:Done,Notgood.If only I could finish my work,even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper.I felt I’v e accomplished a great feat,I repeat to myself:Done,Not good.A couple years ago,I went to Tokyo with my husband,and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant,I don’t even eat fish,I’m vegan.So that tells you how good it was.Even with just vegetable,this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about.The restaurant has six seats.My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice.We wondered why they don’t make a bigger restaurant,and be the most popular place in town.Our local friends explain to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are that small,and do only one type of dish:sushi or tempura or teriyaki.Because they want to do things well and beautiful.And it’s not about quantity.It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of the particular.I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybenever done.And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we bring to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to,and of course to ourselves.In my professional life,it also took me time to find my own reason for doing my work.The first film I was in came out in 1994.Again,appallingly,the year most of you were born,I was 13 years old upon the film’s release,and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim,[Ms Portman poses better than she acts],The film had a universally tepid critic response,and went on to bomb commercially.That film was called ‘The Professional,or Leon in Europe’ And today,20 years and 35 films later,it is still the film people approach me about the most,to tell me how much they loved it,how much it moved them,how it’s their favorite movie.I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures.I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals,rather than the foremost trophies in my industry/financial and critical success.And also these initial reaction could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate legacy.I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about,and from which I knew I could gleanmeaningful experiences.This thoroughly confused everyone around me:agents,producers,and audiences alike,I made Gotya’s Ghost,a fo reign independent film and studied art history,visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition,I made V for Vendetta,studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground.I made Your Highness,a pothead comedy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight.I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.By the time I got to making Black Swan,the experience was entirely my own,I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me. And to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not.It was instructive for me to see ballet dancers,once your technique gets to a certain level,the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or flaws.(怪异甚至瑕疵).One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced.You can never be the best,technically.Someone will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line.The only thing you can be the best at isdeveloping your own self.Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about.I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director whom changed my last line in the movie to:It was perfect.Because my characte Nina is only artistically successful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself,not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others.So when Black Swan was successful financially and I began receiving accolades.I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people.But the true core of my meaning I had already established.And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me.People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk.A scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer.But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that drove me do it.I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do.And so the very inexperience that in college had made me feel insecure.and made me want to play by others’rules.Now is making me actually take risks.Ididn’t even realize were risks.When Darren asked me if I could do ballet,I told him that I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed.When it quickly became clear that preparing for the film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina.It mademe work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect.But the point is,if I had known my own limitations,I never would have taken the risk.And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences.And that I not only felt completely free,I also met my husband during the filming.Similarly,I just directed my first film,A Tale of Love in Darkness.I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me.The film is a period film,completely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year old child as a costar.All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of,as I was completely unprepared for them.but my complete ignorance to my own limitation looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.Oncethere,I had to figure it all out,and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability to do so was only half the battle.The other half was very hard work.The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career.Now clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so!Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions,and allows for a lot effects that make up for mistakes.The thing I’m saying is,make use of the fact that youdon’t doubt yourself too much right now.Aa we get older,we get more realistic,and that includes about our abilities or lack thereof.And that realism does us no favors.People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of.That never worked for me.If I’m afraid,I run away.And I would probably urge my child to do the same.Fear protects us in many ways.What has served me is diving into my obliviousness.Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids,and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated.Well, it can be a good thing if it makes you try you never might have tried.You inexperience is an asset,and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways.Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t compose because he knows too many pieces,so when he starts thinking of the note and existing piece immediately comes to mind.Just starting out one of your biggest strengths,is not knowing how things are supposed to be.You can compose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces.And you don’t take for granted the way how things are.The only way you know how to do things is your own way.You here will go on to achieve great things.There is no doubt about that.Each timeyou set out to do something new,your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values,or you can forge your own path.Even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing.If your reason are your own.Yourpath,even if it is a strange and clumsy path,will be wholly yours.And you will control the rewards of what you do,but making your internal life fulfilling .At the risk of sounding like America contestant,the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the humaninteraction:spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization,meeting young women who were the first and the only in their communities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya;with Free the Children group that built sustainable schools in developing countries,tracking with gorilla conservationists(自然保护主义) in Rwanda.It’s a cliche(这是老生常谈),because it’s true,that helping others ends up helping you more than anyone.Getting out of your concerns,and caring about some else’s life for a while,reminds you that you are not the center of the univ erse.And that in the ways we’re generous or not,we can change the course of someone’s life.Even at work,the small feat of kindness,crewmembers,directors,fellow actorshave shown me,have had the most lasting impact.And of course,first and foremost,the center of my world,is the love that I share with my family and friends.I wish you that your friends will be with you through it all,as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated.My friends from school are still very close.We have nursed each other through heartaches and danced at each others’weddings.We’ve held each other at funerals,and rocked each other’s new babies.We worked together on projects,helped each other get jobs,and thrown parties for when we’ve quit bad ones.And now our children are creating a second generation of friendship,as we look at them toddling together.Haggard and disheveled working parents(疲惫而凌乱的上班族家长) that we are.Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go.The biggest asset this school offers you,is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge.Tricking us into remembering,a sunny yard full of laughing frisbee throwers.(阳光洒满院子，人们扔着飞盘欢声笑语的场景).After 8 months of dark dwelling.It was like the school has managed to turn on the good weather,as a last memory we should keep in mind that would make us want tocome back.But as I get further away from my years here,I know the power of this school is much deeper than weather control.It changed the very question that I was asking.To quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel:To be or not to be is not the question,the vital question is:how to be and how not to be. Thank you. I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things you will do.。
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛毕业演讲稿
娜塔莉波特曼哈佛毕业演讲稿Hello,class of 20xx. I am so honored to be here today. Dean Khurana, faculty, parents, and most especially graduating students. Thank you so much for inviting me The Senior Class Committee. It’s genuinely one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do. I have to admit primarily because I can’t deny it as it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of Sony hack that when I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email Wow! This is so nice! I’m gonna need some funny ghost writers. Any ideas? This initial response now blessedly public was public was from the knowledge that at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrel as class day speaker and that many of us were hung-over, or ever freshly high mainly wanted to laugh. So I have to admit that today, even 12 years after graduation I’m still insecure about my own worthiness. I have to remind myself today you’re here for a reason.Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard Yard as a freshman in 1999 when you guys were, to my continued shock and horror, still in kindergarten. I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this pany, and that every time I opened my mouth I would have to prove that I wasn’t just a dumb actress. So I start with an apology. Thiswon’t be very funny. I am not a edian. And I didn’t get a ghost writer. But I am here to tell you today Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow. You are here for a reason. Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people’s expectation, standard, or values. But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons. The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to–be 4-year-old son. And I watched him play arcade games. He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target. Jewish mother that I am, I skipped 20 steps and was already imagining him as a major league player with what is his aim and his arm and his concentration. But then I realized what he want. He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toys. The prize was much more exciting that the game to get it. I of course wanted to urge him to take joy and the challenge of the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even felling the aomplishment when achieving the game’s goal. But all of these aspects were shaded by the little 10 cent plastic men with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls. Thati-that was the prize. In a child’s nature, we see many of our own innate tendencies. I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too. Prizes serve as false idols everywhere. Prestige，wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of course of there, if not all. Of course, Part of why I was invited to e to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I’ve recruited some very coveted toys in my life including a not so plastic, not so crappy one: an Oscar. So we hump up against the mon troll I think of the mencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted. But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive. Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap. I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School. Ooh, hello Syosset! The girl I went to school with had Prada Bags and Flat-ironed hair. And they spoke with an aent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut minmicked to fit in. Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries. Since I’m ancient and the Inter was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that I was an actress. I was known mainly at school for having a back pack bigger than I was and always having white-out on my handsbecause I hated seeing anything crossed out in my note books.I was voted for my senior yearbook I most likely to be a contestant on Jeopardy for code for nerdiest. When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I knew I would be starting over in terms of how people viewed me I feared people would have assumed I’d gotten in just for being famous, and that they would thinks that I was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here. And it would not have been far from the truth, When I came here I had never written a 10-page paper before. I’m not sure I’ve written a 5-page paper. I was alarmed and intimidated by the calm eyes of a fellow student who came here from Dalton or Exeter who thought that capered to high school the workload here was easy. I was pletely overwhelm, and thought that reading 1,000 pages a week was unimaginable, that writing a 50-page thesis is just something I could never do.I have no idea to declare my intentions. I couldn’t even articulate them to myself. I’ve been acting since I was 11. But I thought acting was too frivolous and certainly not meaningful. I came from a family of academics and very concerned of being taken seriously. In contrast to my inability to declare myself, on my first day of orientation freshman year, five separate students introduced themselves to me by saying, I’m going to be president. Remember I told you that. Their names, for the record, were Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton. In all seriousness, I believed every one of them. Their bearing and self-confidence alone seemed proof of their prophecy where I couldn’t shake my self-doubt. I got in only because I was famous. This was how others saw me and it was how I saw myself.Driven by these insecurities, I decided I was going to find something to do in Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place. At the age of 18, I’d already been acting for 7 years. And assumed I find a serious and profound path in college. So freshman fall I decided to take neurobiology and advanced Modern Hebrew literature because I was serious and intellectual. Needless to say, I should have failed both. I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan Gods of grade inflation. But as I fighting my through Aleph Bet Yod Y’shua in Hebrew and the different mechanisms ofneuro-response, I saw friends around me writing papers on sailing and top culture magazines, and professors teaching classes on fairy tales and The Matrix. I realized that seriousness for seriousness’s sake was its own kind of trophy,and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was. There was a reason that I was an actor.I love what I do. And I saw from my peers and my mentors that it was not only an aeptable reason, it was the best reason. When I got to my graduation, sitting where you sit today, after 4 years of trying to get excited about something else, I admitted to myself that I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films.I wanted to tell stories, to imagine the life of others and help the others do the same. I have found or perhaps reclaimed my reason. You have a prize now, or at least you will tomorrow. The prize is a Harvard degree in your hand. But what is the reason behind it? My Harvard degree represent, for me, the curiosity and invention that were encouraged here, the friendship I’ve sustained the way Professor Graham told me not to describe the way light hit a flower but rather the shadow the flower cast, the way professor Scarry talked about theatre is a transformative religious force how professor Coslin showed how much our visual cortex is activated just by imagining. Now granted these things don’t necessarily help me answer the most mon question I’m asked: What designer are you wearing? What’s your fitness regime? Any makeup tips? But I have never since been embarrassed to myself as what I might previously havethought was a stupid question. My Harvard degree and other adwards are emblems of the experiences which led me to them. The wood paneled lecture halls, the colorful fall leaves, the hot vanilla Toscaninis, Reading great novels in overstuffed library chairs running through dining halls screaming: Ooh! Ah! City step! City step! City step! City step! It’s easy now to romanticize my time there. But I had some very difficult times here too. Some bination of being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects, and spending too much time missing daylight during winter months led me to some pretty dark moments, particularly during sophomore year. There were several oasions where I started crying in meetings with professors overwhelmed with what I was supposed to pull off when I could barely get myself out of bed in the morning. The moments when I took on the motto for my school work, done, not good. If only I could finish my work, even if it took eating a jumbo pack of sour Patch Kids to get me through a single 10-page paper. I felt that I’ve aomplished a great feat. I repeat to myself: done, not good. A couple of years ago, I went to Tokyo with my husband and I ate at the most remarkable sushi restaurant. I don’t even eat fish. I’m vegan.So that tells you how good it was. Even with just vegetables, this sushi was the stuff you dreamed about. The restaurant has six seats. My husband and I marveled at how anyone can make rice so superior to all other rice. We wondered why they didn’t make a bigger restaurant and be the most popular place in town. Our local friends’ explains to us that all the best restaurants in Tokyo are so that small and do only one type of dish: sushi or tempura or teriyaki, because they want to do that thing well and beautifully. And it’s not about quantity. It’s about taking pleasure in the perfection and beauty of particular. I’m still learning now that it’s about good and maybe never done. And the joy and work ethic and virtuosity we being to the particular can impart a singular type of enjoyment to those we give to and of course, to ourselves. In my professional life, it also took me time to find my own reasons for doing my work. The first film I was in came out in 1994. Again, appallingly, the year most of you were born. I was 13 years old upon the film’s release and I can still quote what the New York Times said about me verbatim. Ms Portman poses better than she acts. The film had universally tepid critic response and went on to bomb mercially. That film was called The Professional, or Leon in Europe. And today, 20 years and 35 films later, it is still the film peopleapproach me about the most to tell me how much they loved it, how much they moved them, how it’s their favorite movie. I feel lucky that my first experience of releasing a film was initially such a disaster by all standards and measures. I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making film and the possibility of connecting with individuals rather than the foremost trophies in my industry: financial and critical suess. And also these initial reactions could be false predictors of your work’s ultimate legacy, I started choosing only jobs that I’m passionate about and from which I knew I could glean meaningful experiences.This thoroughly confused everyone around me: agents, producers, and audiences alike. I made Gotya’s Ghost, a foreign independent film and study our history visiting the produce everyday for 4 months as I read about Goya and the Spanish Inquisition. I made for Vendetta, studio action movie for which I learned everything I could about freedom fighters whom otherwise may be called terrorists, from Menachem Begin to Weather Underground. I made Your Highness, a pothead edy with Danny McBride and laughed for 3 months straight. I was able to own my meaning ant not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige. By the time I got to making Black Swan,the experience was entirely my own. I felt immune to the worst things anyone could say or write about me, and to whether the audience felt like to see my movie or not. It was instructive for me to see for ballet dancers once your technique gets to a certain level, the only thing that separates you from others is your quirks or even flaws. One ballerina was famous for how she turned slightly off balanced. You can never be the best, technically. Some will always have a higher jump or a more beautiful line. The only thing you can be the best at is developing your own self. Authoring your own experience was very much what Black Swan itself was about. I worked with Darren Aronofsky the director who changed my last line in the movie to it was perfect. My character Nina is only artistically suessful when she finds perfection and pleasure for herself not when she was trying to be perfect in the eyes of others. So when Black Swan was suessful financially and I began receiving aolades I felt honored and grateful to have connected with people. But the true core of my meaning I had already established. And I needed it to be independent of people’s reactions to me. People told me that Black Swan was an artistic risk, a scary challenge to try to portray a professional ballet dancer. But it didn’t feel like courage or daring that droveme do it. I was so oblivious to my own limits that I did things I was woefully unprepared to do. And so the very inexperience that in college had made me insecure and made me want to play by other’s rules now is making me actually take risks I didn’t even realize were risks. When Darren asked me if I could do ballet I told him I was basically a ballerina which by the way I wholeheartedly believed. When it quickly became clear that preparing for film that I was 15 years away from being a ballerina. It made me work a million times harder and of course the magic of cinema and body doubles helped the final effect. But the point is, if I had known my own limitations I never would take of the risk. And the risk led to one of my greatest artistic personal experiences. And that I not only felt pletely free.I also met my husband during the filming. Similarly, I just directed my first film, A Tale of love in Darkness. I was quite blind to the challenges ahead of me. The film is a period film, pletely in Hebrew in which I also act with an eight-year-old child as a costar. All of these are challenges I should have been terrified of, as I was pletely unprepared for them but my plete ignorance to my own limitations looked like confidence and got me into the director’s chair.Once here, I have to figure it all out, and my belief that I could handle these things contrary to all evidence of my ability or do so was only half the battle. The other half was very hard work. The experience was the deepest and most meaningful one of my career. Now clearly I’m not urging you to go and perform heart surgery without the knowledge to do so! Making movies admittedly has less drastic consequences than most professions and allows for a lot of effects that make up for mistakes. The thing I’m saying is, make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now. As we get older, we get more realistic, and that includes about our own abilities or lack thereof. And that realism does us no favors. People always talk about diving into things you’re afraid of. That never worked for me. If I am afraid, I run away. And I would probably urge my child to do the same. Fear protects us in many ways. What has served me is diving into my own obliviousness. Being more confident than I should be which everyone tends to decry American kids, and those of us who have been grade inflated and ego inflated. Well. It can be a good thing if it makes you try things you never might have tried. Your inexperience is an asset, and will allow you to think in original and unconventional way. Aept your lack of knowledgeand use it as your asset. I know a famous violinist who told me that he can’t pose because he knows too many pieces so when he starts thinking of the note an existing piece immediately es to mind. Just starting out of your digest strengths is not known how things are supposed to be. You can pose freely because your mind isn’t cluttered with too many pieces. And you don’t take for granted the way how things are. The only way you know how to do things is your own way. You here will all go on to achieve great things. There is no doubt about that. Each time you set out to do something new your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else’s values or you can forge your own path. Even though you don’t realize that’s what you’re doing. If your reasons are your own, your path, even if it’s a strange and clumsy path, will be wholly yours, and you will control the rewards of what you do by making your internal life fulfilling.At the risk of sounding like a Miss American Contestant, the most fulfilling things I’ve experienced have truly been the human interactions: spending time with women in village banks in Mexico with FINCA microfinance organization, meeting young women who were the first and the only in their munities to attend secondary schools in rural Kenya with free theChildren group that built sustainable schools in developing countries tracking with gorilla conservationists in Rwanda. It’s cliché, because it’s true, that helping other ends up helping you more than anyone. Getting out of your own concerns and caring about some else’s life for a while, remind you that you are not the central of the universe. And that in the ways we’re generous or not, We can change course of someone’s life. …have had the most lasting impact. And of course, first and foremost, the center of my world is the love that I share with my family and friends. I wish for you that your friends will be with you through it all as my friends from Harvard have been together since we graduated. Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go. To be or not to be is not the question; the vital question is how to be and how not to be. Thank you!I can’t wait to see you do all the beautiful thins you will do.。
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Thank you so much for inviting me. The senior class committee.非常感谢你们邀请我。
感谢大四学生会。
It's genuinely one of the most exciting thing I've ever been asked to do.这真是我被邀请过的最令人兴奋的一件事。
I have to admit primarily because I can't deny it.我不得不承认，这主要是因为我没法儿否认它。
As it was leaked in the WikiLeaks release of the Sony hack that when I was invited I replied and I directly quote my own email :"wow this is so nice."因为维基解密公布的索尼被黑资料中爆出了我受邀之时的邮件回复：“哇哦，这真是太棒了。
”"I'm gonna need some funny ghost writers, any ideas?"“我得去物色几个搞笑代笔啊，你有啥建议么？”This initial response now blessedly public with from the knowledge at my class day we were lucky enough to have Will Ferrell as class speaker, and many of us were hung-over, or even freshly high, mainly wanted to laugh.这段人尽皆知的最初回复背后的原因是我们毕业日时有幸请到了威尔法瑞尔做演讲，当时我们中的大多数都宿醉未醒，或刚开始嗨起来，于是只想笑。
So I have to admit that today, even twelve years after graduation. I'm still insecure about my own worthiness.所以我不得不承认，即使是在毕业十二年后的今天，我依然对自己的价值毫无自信。
I have to remind myself today you are here for a reason.我不得不提醒自己，今天你在这里是有原因的。
Today I feel much like I did when I came to Harvard as a freshman in 1999 when you guys were to make continued shock and horror still in kindergarten.今天的感觉很像我在1999年来到哈佛大学时那样，对此我很震惊，因为你们那时还在上幼儿园。
I felt like there'd been some mistake that I wasn't smart enough to be in this company, and that every time I open my mouth I would have to prove I wasn't just a dumb actress.我感觉一定有哪儿弄错了，我的智商根本不配来这里，每次我开口说话都必须证明我不只是一个愚蠢的女演员。
So I start with an apology, this won't be very funny.所以我得先道歉，这个演讲并不是很有趣。
I'm not a comedian and I didn't get a ghost writer.我不是一个喜剧演员，我也没有找代笔。
But I am here to tell you today Harvard is giving you all diplomas tomorrow.但今天我在这里告诉你，哈佛明天会给你们所有人发文凭。
You are here for a reason.你们在这里是有原因的。
Sometimes your insecurities and you're an experienced may lead you to embrace other people's expectations, standards or values.有时你的不自信和缺乏经验会使你接受别人的期望，标准或价值观。
But you can harness that inexperience to carve out here path one that is free the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.但你们要知道，无经验可以造就你自己的路，一条没有“事情应该怎么做的负担”的路，一条由自己的理由来定义的路。
The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon to be four-year-old son and I watched him play arcade games.有一天我和我快四岁大的儿子去了游乐园，我看着他玩街机游戏。
He was incredibly focused, throwing his ball at the target.他非常专注的把球往靶子上扔。
Jewish mother that I am, I skipped twenty steps, and was already imagining him as a major league player.作为一名犹太母亲，我跳过20个步骤，已经开始想象他是一个大联盟的球员。
With what is his aim and his arm and his concentration, but then I realized what he want.头球精准，手臂健壮，全神贯注，但是后来我意识到了他想要的是什么。
He was playing to trade in his tickets for the crappy plastic toys.他玩这个是为了得到票以换取那些粗劣的塑料玩具。
The prize was much more exciting than the game to get it.奖品远比游戏过程令人兴奋。
I of course want to urge him to take joy and the challenge if the game, the improvement upon practice, the satisfaction of doing something well, and even feeling the accomplishment when achieving the game's goals.我当然想敦促他享受游戏的欢乐和挑战，在练习中进步，表现优越而获得满足感，甚至是在达到游戏目标时的成就感。
But all these aspects were shaded by the little ten-cent plastic man, with sticky stretchy blue arms that adhere to the walls.但所有这些方面都被十美分的塑料小人玩具给遮盖了，它有着可以粘在墙壁上的蓝色手臂。
That was the prize.这就是所谓奖品。
In a child's nature, we see many of our innate tendencies.从一个孩子的天性中，我们看到了我们许多与生俱来的倾向。
I saw myself in him and perhaps you do too.我在他身上看到了自己，也许你们也看到了自身。
Prizes serve as false idols everywhere, prestige, wealth, fame, power.奖品作为虚假偶像无处不在，声誉，财富，名声，力量。
You will be exposed to many of these, if not all.你将会接触到很多，至少也会碰到几个。
Of course part of why I was invited to come to speak today beyond my being a proud alumna is that I've recruited some very coveted toys in my life, including a not so plastic, not so crappy one, an Oscar.当然今天我被邀请来演讲的部分原因除了我是一个骄傲的女校友外，是因为我在人生中收集了一些非常令人垂涎的玩具，不像塑料那么廉价，也不那么蹩脚，一座奥斯卡小金人。
So we bump up against the common troll I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not are not always to be trusted.我们通常在毕业典礼演讲上碰到的烦心事那就是取得了许多成功的人告诉你成功的果实并不总是值得信任。
But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and in fact instructed.但是我认为矛盾实际上是可以协调的，并且具有教导意义。
Achievement is wonderful when you know why you're doing it.成就是美好的，当你知道你为什么这么做的时候。
And when you don't know, it can be a terrible trap.如果你不知道，它就可能变成可怕的陷阱。
I went to a public high school on Long Island. Syosset high school. Ooh, Hello Syosset.我念的是长岛的公立高中。