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Natalie Portman Harvard Commencement Speech 2015


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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 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 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.