艾伦德杰尼勒斯毕业演讲双语版

艾伦德杰尼勒斯列举了2009年5月16日在杜兰大学毕业典礼上发表演说。

谢谢主席考，考恩先生夫人，各位嘉宾，平凡的客人 - 你知道你是谁，兑现教师和爬行西班牙语教师。并感谢所有在2009年毕业班，我知道你最是很难受的头痛欲裂，没有睡觉，因为脂肪星期二，但你不能毕业我直到我完成，所以听着。

当有人问我，使毕业典礼上发表演说，我立即答应了。然后我去找了什么开始的意思。哪个都容易，如果我有一本字典，但大多数的书在我们的房子是鲍西亚的，他们都是在澳大利亚写的。因此，我不得不打破了自己的单词，找出意义。

生效日期：普通，和水泥。普通水泥。您通常看到人行道水泥。人行道上有裂缝，如果你在一个裂缝的一步，你打破你的妈妈回来了。因此，必须到此为止。但我很荣幸，你问我在这里发言，你的普通水泥。

我还以为你是一个著名校友 - alumini - 铝 - alumis - 你已经从这个学校毕业。我并没有在这里上大学，我不知道总统科安知道，我没有去任何学院的。任何学院。而且我不是说你浪费你的时间，金钱，但看看我，我“马大名人。

虽然我没有从学校毕业的硬来临，我们的吉祥物是门环。我花了很多时间在这里成长。我妈妈曾在（？），我会去那里，每次我需要的东西偷了她的钱包。但是，为什么我今天在这里？显然不是偷，你太遥远，我从来没有侥幸成功。

我来这里是因为你。因为我想不出更顽强，更勇敢的毕业班。我的意思是，你们都看看，你穿长袍。通常，当你穿着一上午10时在长袍，这意味着你已经放弃。我来这里是因为我喜欢新奥尔良。我在这里出生长大，我在这里度过我的成长岁月，和你一样，而我当时住在这里，我不但没有洗衣服的6倍。当我完成学业，我完全失去了。和学校，我的意思是中学，但我继续完成高中和反正。而我 - 我真的，我没有野心，我不知道我想做的事。我做的一切从 - 我的牡蛎剥壳取肉，我是女主人，我是一个酒保，我是一名女服务员，我的房子，我卖掉vaccuum清洁工人，我不知道。而且我觉得还是最终解决一些工作，我会赚到足够的钱支付我的租金，基本有线电视也许有，也许没有，我并没有真正有一个计划，我要说的是，到时候我在你们这年纪，我真的以为我知道我是谁，但我不知道。像例如，当我是你的年龄，我是男人约会。那么，我要说的是，当你年纪较大，你的大部分是同性恋。任何人在写这东西了吗？父母？

无论如何，我不知道我想要做什么与我的生活，我的方式结束了在这条道路是从一个非常悲惨的事件。也许我是19，和我当时的女朋友在车祸中丧生。而且我通过了意外，我不知道这是她和我保持下去，不久之后，我发现了，这是她。而我是在一个地下室公寓生活，我没有钱，我没有暖气，没有冷气，我有一个床垫在地板上和公寓与跳蚤为患。而我反省，我想，为什么她突然消失了，这里

有跳蚤？我不明白，必须有一个目的，那岂不是很方便，如果我们能够拿起电话，打电话的神，问这些问题。

而且我开始写什么我是倒出来的一个虚构的对话与上帝，这是片面的，我写完了，我看它，我对自己说，我什至没有在做直立的，以往任何时候都没有在城市俱乐部。我说，“我该怎么办就与约翰尼卡森今夜秀本” - 当时他是国王 - “和我去是在该节目史上第一位女性被称为多坐下。“而数年后，我是在历史上第一位女表明，在该节目历史上唯一的女人坐下来，因为那通电话，与神，我说。和我展开了直立的道路，这是成功的，它是伟大的，但它很难，因为我是想请大家和我这个秘密，我是保留的，我是同性恋。而且我认为，如果人们发现他们不喜欢我，他们不会笑我。

然后变成我的职业生涯 - 我有我自己的情景喜剧，这是非常成功的，另一个成功的水平。我以为，如果他们发现我是同性恋，那么他们永远不会看，这是一个很久以前，这是当我们刚白总统 - 这是回来，很多年以前 - 我终于决定我住这么多的耻辱，和这么多的恐惧，我只是不能这样活了，我决定站出来，使其创造性。和性格，我会来在同一时间，它不是要一个政治声明，这不是做任何事情除了摆脱这种沉重，我是背负着自己，我只是想成为诚实的。而且我想，“什么是最坏的可能发生吗？我可以失去我的职业生涯。“ 我做到了。我失去了我的职业生涯。该节目被取消后，六年，甚至没有告诉我，我在报纸上看到它。这款手机并没有响3年。我没有优惠。没有人想触摸我。然而，我接到孩子的信，几乎自杀，但没有，因为我所做的。而且我意识到，我是有目的的。它不仅是对我和它是不是对名人，但我觉得我是被惩罚...这是一个糟糕的时候，我很生气，我很伤心，然后我提供了一个脱口秀节目。而人们给我的脱口秀节目试图将其出售。和大多数车站不想它捡起来。大多数人不愿意买，因为他们认为没有人会看着我。

真的，当我看它的时候，我不会改变任何事情。我的意思是，对我来说是如此重要，失去一切，因为我发现了什么是最重要的是，这将是真正的自己。最终，这也正是我得到了这个地方。我不是生活在恐惧中，我自由了，我没有秘密。我知道我将永远是好，因为无论怎样，我知道我是谁。所以在最后，当我年轻时我以为成功是不同的东西。我想，当我长大后，我想出名。我想成为一个明星。我想在电影。当我长大了我想看到的世界，驱动好车，我想有追星族。引述猫咪娃娃。有多少人认为这是“胸部”，顺便说一句？它不是，它的“追星族”。

但我对今天的成功的想法是不同的。当你成长，你会发现成功的变动的定义。对于大多数人来说，今天的成功是能够压低龙舌兰酒的20杆。对我来说，在你生命中最重要的是你的生活与生命的完整性，而不是给到同伴的压力。尝试将一些你没有。作为一个诚实的生活和富有同情心的人你的生活。以某种方式作出贡献。因此，要结束我的结论是：按照你的热情，保持真正的自己。不要跟随别人的路径，除非你在树林里，你就输了，你看到一个路径，并用一切手段你应该遵循的。不给意见，它会回来，咬你的屁股。不要把任何人的意见。所以，我对你的建议是要忠实于自己，一切都会好起来。

而我知道有不少对你的前途担忧，但没有必要担心。经济正在蓬勃发展，就业

市场是敞开的，地球只是罚款。这是去是很大的。你已经躲过了飓风。还有

什么可以发生在你身上？正如我前面提到的，最令人心碎的事情发生在你身上

有些人会教你了。现在你知道正确的问题要问您的第一份工作面试。像这样的“海拔是吗？”。因此，要结束我的讲话水泥的共同结论，我以前已经结束，

我猜我想说的是人生就像是一个大的狂欢节。但是，而不是展示你的胸部，告

诉人们你的大脑，如果他们喜欢他们所看到的，你会比你有更多的珠子知道该怎么做。而且你会喝醉的，大部分的时间。因此，2009年卡特里娜类，我说祝贺，如果你不记得我今天说的事，记住：你会没事，去达姆达姆达姆达姆，只是跳舞。

Ellen DeGeneres gives a commencement speech at Tulane University on May 16, 2009.

Thank you, President Cowan, Mrs. President Cowen; distinguished guests, undistinguished guests - you know who you are, honored faculty and creepy Spanish teacher. And thank you to all the graduating class of 2009, I realize most of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven't slept since Fat Tuesday, but you can't graduate 'til I finish, so listen up.

When I was asked to make the commencement speech, I immediately said yes. Then I went to look up what commencement meant. Which would have been easy if I had a dictionary, but most of the books in our house are Portia's, and they're all written in Australian. So I had to break the word down myself, to find out the meaning.

Commencement: common, and cement. Common cement. You commonly see cement on sidewalks. Sidewalks have cracks, and if you step on a crack, you break your mother's back. So there's that. But I'm honored that you've asked me here to speak at your common cement.

I thought that you had to be a famous alumnus - alumini - aluminum - alumis - you had to graduate from this school. And I didn't go to college here, and I don't know if President Cowan knows, I didn't go to any college at all. Any college. And I'm not saying you wasted your time, or money, but look at me, I”ma huge celebrity.

Although I did graduate from the school of hard knocks, our mascot was the knockers. I spent a lot of time here growing up. My mom worked at (?) and I would go there every time I needed to steal something out of her purse. But why am I here today? Clearly not to steal, you're too far away and I'd never get away with it.

I'm here because of you. Because I can't think of a more tenacious, more courageous graduating class. I mean, look at you all, wearing your robes. Usually when you're wearing a robe at 10 in the morning, it means you've given up. I'm here because I love New Orleans. I was born and raised here, I spent my formative years here, and like you, while I was living here I only did laundry six times. When I finished school, I was completely lost. And by school, I mean middle school, but I went ahead and finished high school anyway. And I - I really, I had no ambition, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I did everything from - I shucked oysters, I was a hostess, I was a bartender, I was a waitress, I painted houses, I sold vaccuum cleaners, I had no idea. And I thought I'd just finally settle in some job, and I would make enough money to pay my rent, maybe have basic cable, maybe not, I didn't really have a plan, my point is that, by the time I was your age, I really thought I knew who I was, but I had no idea. Like for example, when I was your age, I was dating men. So what I'm saying is, when you're older, most of you will be gay. Anyone writing this stuff down? Parents?

Anyway, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and the way I ended up on this path was from a very tragic event. I was maybe 19, and my girlfriend at the time was killed in a car accident. And I passed the accident, and I didn't know it was her and I kept going, and I found out shortly after that, it was her. And I was living in a basement apartment, I had no money, I had no heat, no air, I had a mattress on the floor and the apartment was infested with fleas. And I was soul-searching, I was like, why is she suddenly gone, and there are fleas here? I don't understand, there must be a purpose, and wouldn't it be so convenient if we could pick up the phone and call God, and ask these questions.

And I started writing and what poured out of me was an imaginary conversation with God, which was one-sided, and I finished writing it and I looked at it and I said to myself, and I hadn't even been doing stand-up, ever, there was no club in town. I said, “I'm gonna do this on the Tonight Show With Johnny Carson”- at the time he was the king - “and I'm gonna be the first woman in the history of the show to be called over to sit down.” And several years later, I was the first woman in the history of the show, and only woman in the history of the show to sit down, because of that phone conversation with God that I wrote. And I started this path of stand-up and it was successful and it was great, but it was hard, because I was trying to please everybody and I had this secret that I was keeping, that I was gay. And I thought if people found out they wouldn't like me, they wouldn't laugh at me.

Then my career turned into - I got my own sitcom, and that was very successful, another level of success. And I thought, what if they find

out I'm gay, then they'll never watch, and this was a long time ago, this was when we just had white presidents - this was back, many years ago - and I finally decided that I was living with so much shame, and so much fear, that I just couldn't live that way anymore, and I decided to come out and make it creative. And my character would come out at the same time, and it wasn't to make a political statement, it wasn't to do anything other than to free myself up from this heaviness that I was carrying around, and I just wanted to be honest. And I thought, “What's the worst that could happen? I can lose my career”. I did. I lost my career. The show was cancelled after six years, without even telling me, I read it in the paper. The phone didn't ring for three years. I had no offers. Nobody wanted to touch me at all. Yet, I was getting letters from kids that almost committed suicide, but didn't, because of what I did. And I realised that I had a purpose. And it wasn't just about me and it wasn't about celebrity, but I felt like I was being punished… it was a bad time, I was angry, I was sad, and then I was offered a talkshow. And the people that offered me the talkshow tried to sell it. And most stations didn't want to pick it up. Most people didn't want to buy it because they thought nobody would watch me.

Really when I look back on it, I wouldn't change a thing. I mean, it was so important for me to lose everything because I found out what the most important thing is, is to be true to yourself. Ultimately, that's what's gotten me to this place. I don't live in fear, I'm free, I have no secrets. and I know I'll always be ok, because no matter what, I know who I am. So In conclusion, when I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought when I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars, I want to have groupies. To quote the Pussycat Dolls. How many people thought it was “boobies”, by the way? It's not, it's “groupies”.

But my idea of success is different today. And as you grow, you'll realise the definition of success changes. For many of you, today, success is being able to hold down 20 shots of tequila. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity, and not to give into peer pressure. to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. to contribute in some way. So to conclude my conclusion: follow your passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, and by all means you should follow that. Don't give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don't take anyone's advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

And I know that a lot of you are concerned about your future, but there's no need to worry. The economy is booming, the job market is wide open, the planet is just fine. It's gonna be great. You've already survived a hurricane. What else can happen to you? And as I mentioned before, some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most. And now you know the right questions to ask in your first job interview. Like, “Is it above sea level?” . So to conclude my conclusion that I've previously concluded, in the common cement speech, I guess what I'm trying to say is life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with. And you'll be drunk, most of the time. So the Katrina class of 2009, I say congratulations and if you don't remember a thing I said today, remember this: you're gonna be ok, dum de dum dum dum, just dance.