J.K.Rowling speaking at Harvard part 2

[indra307]

she is the most creative woman in this planet ever... thank you for share this video

[abettersouthworld]

who could dislike this, what kind of looser cant relate to this!!

[lilybob231]

I love her. She is my queen. My hero and my insperation <3

[P0wn8ge]

One individual apparently lived so cautiously that he/she might as well have never lived at all. Failure by default, such words of wisdom.

[HENJAM48]

I have never read a Harry potter Book... I'm still in love.. Speechlessly-so.

[DunDiddit]

Thank you.

[bendh1967]

what a great commencement...JK Rowling is a talented, wise woman....

[Clueless721]

@ahmazingg66 I haven't figured it out yet...

[musicluvpeace11]

@ahmazingg66 that is precisely why i searched for it....

[thisisjustaflashback]

wow, i really needed to hear this at this time of my life.

[flysten]

"you failed by default" <--- honest truth

[FairyDustDreamsx]

Thankyou JK Rowling. You've made me forgive myself for failing my second year at university.

[unikornline]

please tell me i'm not the only one that cried during this...

[lillies234]

@unikornline : you have company..

[Nicole3900]

She had thousands of "loud, obnoxious Americans" dead silent, hanging onto every word. Now THAT takes an extremely eloquent speaker. ;) But honestly, that was the most incredible, amazing speech I have every heard. Fantastic.

[cqtaylor]

@Nicole3900

Last time I checked, the House of Commons is pretty loud and obnoxious. And people were loud and obnoxious before the creation of the United States.

[Nicole3900]

@cqtaylor I know, lol. I'm American. I was saying it in a sarcastic way (hence the quotation marks) since so many non-Americans, especially Brits (gotta love 'em), say Americans are all loud and obnoxious (we're not). So J.K. Rowling must surely be amazing to have gotten a crowd of stereotypically loud and obnoxious people to hang onto her every word and not make a sound.

[cqtaylor]

@Nicole3900 Ohhh, I see. My apologies. Always great to contradict stereotypes! :-)

[Nicole3900]

@cqtaylor no problem :)

[Pinkutie]

I get to perform her speech in my speech tournament. I am truly honored.

[FREExYOURxHATE]

i think she is an incredible woman who wasted an amazingly true and inspiring speech at a harvard graduation. harvard students are so pretentious they dont know shit about failure or adversity. but i love j k rowling. she is an extroardinary human being and this speech is so true and really nails all the bullshit in the world

[easygoingpickle]

@FREExYOURxHATE Yup - it was kind of her in part 1 to say she knows they haven't been without hardship but really....the future president is probably sitting there among the graduates, future justices, future ambassadors, all of whom have never had to work a day in their lives to earn money. I'd say most of them have no idea what hardship's about.

Then again, maybe there was a deeper meaning to what she said than money. Family drama, for example, I know that exists in those types of families.

[ColaBling]

Wow an Harvard education and now Rowlings is teaching them to be Fearless....brilliant. America needs a new generation of people with extra courage to lift them out of recession.

[rukaxmiku]

@bashthebandello : fuck u.

[laugh79]

Listening to the way she tells the story of her life, you can tell immediately that she has the gifts of a true author.

[fuss400]

she busty

[MileyisHOTT]

when was this speech given?

[IHartJAsPeRHaLe]

@MileyisHOTT 2008

[juresaiyan]

Rowling is a genious.

[camilok7]

This is one of the most quotable speeches I've read in a while

[joetavish]

is this glasgow caledonian university?

[revolvigdoors]

no its harvard.

[joetavish]

@revolvigdoors no it's glasgow caledonian university! prove it!

[revolvigdoors]

@joetavish imdb her. under trivia it said she received an honorary diploma at Harvard at which she spoke.

you can also check wikipedia.

[camilok7]

@joetavish This is Harvard

[joetavish]

@camilok7 no it's caley, or coatbridge college at the least. prove it

[adamjamesm]

If you liked reading Harry Potter, then you might like reading Richard Longtails.

Google it.

Do it now!

:D

[tachyon7777]

Failure does liberate.

[0o0oBecky0o0o]

I am moved.

This is truth and insight which I am fortunate to hear. This is essential.

Thank you for posting this!

[horcruxkiller]

Wow, that is a great experience to go through what she went through. It goes to show how what you experience shapes what you create.

[archerling245]

Magical

[GodmyX]

@archerling245 That's that... her words, experiences and all she can tell to the people is magical, that's why Harry Potter was too0. Reading it from my eleven years,when I couldn't speak english at all, being 20 now, capable of understanding the original script....

[desmondmyers]

@GodmyX That is very inspiring. Harry has been a constant in my life and has helped me through so much, I speak English natively and I am now confronting the language barrier myself here in Germany. You are an inspiration as well!

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

Without failure there is no winning. Agree 100%

[djenvyy]

she is an extraordinary human being. humble and genuine. thank you, ms. rowling.

[barracudafreexd]

love her.

[cookiesfernnie]

i love what she said .."your qualification and CV are not your life". It's so true! i have experienced lot of failures since i graduated my postgrad. i felt as if i didn't want to live further being depressed on the dissatisfied level of my acheivement. it does take time for me to understand life. without the pain and failure, i'll never know what is life. JK. really speaks my mind.

[razzigirl]

What does she say about friends? She discovered she had friends who were above the price of.....? Rupees?

[RhymeHardcore]

rubies

[razzigirl]

Thanks.

[Aurora7]

Rubies.

[lillies234]

@razzigirl : she said 'rubies'

[princewilliamFLD]

She truly is a maverick genius. The amount of money I would pay to simply have a conversation with her would be monumental.

If I had a monumental bank account, that is.

[iiipinkloveiii]

she's the best.

[raingurlforyou]

nice one

[raingurlforyou]

i like this speech ... this is so true

[xGraceexRosex]

She had the whole audience in silence. She is an amazing woman and talks truthfully about the world.

[mignonoz]

Now I know where the unforgivable "Crucio" curse comes from....

[OoReachingJannahoO]

i was thinking the same thing!!

[ThirdTimesCharm]

wow

[Hayden880]

wow, she made me cry a lot. brilliant. thanks very much

[7Underwood7]

I believe shes talking about Burma. This women is amazing.

[snidelywhiplash]

Burma? Maybe.

[7Underwood7]

Huh?

[snidelywhiplash]

Perhaps she's making a veiled reference to another country...?

[7Underwood7]

Perhaps, but...

Burma doesn't allow people to leave the country, also Burma doesn't allow internet access out of Burma, or any method of getting information in > out.

[harrypottersucks555]

that's not BURMA . . .that's their GOVERNMENT

[jrelis]

BUrma is in Asia

[kingdavid11]

She worked for Africa research department not Asia

[o10ciano]

she was talking during 1987/88. It maybe South Afrika, Uganda or Libya. She is Fearless!!! Shame to all slumber peasants like those who graduate at Harvard!

[artzynikki]

she's a fantastic woman

[rha101]

Thanks for sharing her address.

[angelofchaos812]

ooww it was exciting, wasn't it?

[EmiMac20]

Thanks again!