Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address

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Oprah Winfrey, global media leader and philanthropist, spoke to the Class of 2008 at Stanford's 117th Commencement on June 15, 2008. Winfrey drew on experiences from a career that began in 1976 when she co-anchored a television newscast, and she shared three lessons about feelings, failure and finding happiness.

Transcript of Oprah Winfrey's commencement address:

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Uploaded: June 16, 2008 at 1:37 am
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Length: 00:29:54
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Video Comments:
vittykorn (October 6, 2008 at 8:52 pm)
This is the most inspiring, thoughtful and useful graduation day speech I have ever heard. The reason Oprah overcame adversity & discrimination of all kinds to become one of the richest & most influential people on the planet is because she has an exceptional innate ability to acquire & synthesize wisdom. Her wise words bring me to tears.
Cayden24 (October 4, 2008 at 5:31 pm)
Nothing against Oprah...but overall, I found this speech rather poor. Too long, not focused on a central point, and too much "me" talking.
Bachconcertos (September 27, 2008 at 9:10 am)
Did these graduates learn morality, compassion, ethics? All these greedy, unethical CEOs and Wall street people, and government officials with their B.A.s and Masters degrees destroying democracy, starving Americans of housing, jobs,health care -- year after year, decade after decade, putting us at war - yeah, real intelligent people -- what about emotional intelligence.
Bachconcertos (September 26, 2008 at 7:08 am)
Wall street and the greedy selfish CEOs with their B.A.s and their master's degrees need to be responsible for their greed and corruption. The governbment should not bail these selfish people out.
mittan0709 (September 24, 2008 at 10:07 am)
i am too impressing!i will to do.
naw147 (September 21, 2008 at 5:40 am)
rowling's is not any less real!
kennybenny (September 21, 2008 at 4:05 am)
WOOT U GO GIRL!
zestey (September 20, 2008 at 1:11 am)
If i see oprah patting herself on her back again for saving the planet i am going to puke
oprah needs to keep pone thing in mind she would not be where she is without whitey letting her get there 99% of all blacks in this country that have any amount of success get if from the entertainment or sports field
they are nothing but modern day court jesters
PrimeEvolutionary (September 19, 2008 at 11:05 pm)
Look up "Anonymous" on YouTube. Paul Fetch is the leader of Anonymous
jackandjillsong (September 18, 2008 at 7:58 pm)
Great speech!
Oprah moves people!