This is such an incredible speech. I cried because I know I should do more with my life to help others. I will listen to this again on my own graduation day. Hopefully I will have changed my life for the better by then...
That's personally what I think determines her success. Not only from the number of books she's sold, how much money she's earned and how popular she's become but how she touches the hearts of people all over the world. She's certainly touched mine. And I hope one day to do the same.
That's personally what I think determines her success. Not only from the number of books she's sold, how much money she's earned and how popular she's become but how she touches the hearts of people all over the world. She's certainly touched mine. And I hope one day to do the same.
I'm 17 and in Arts school. I've been having a tough time because I'm there for the creative writing more than drawing and don't want to waste my time but this speech has definitely given me some hope and confidence. Thank you JK Rowling.
I regret not enjoying and valuing education when I had the chance. Never made real friends and don't have memories worth remembering. I'm only 25 and already feel like I've wasted so much of my life...
@blablaat Mate, totally get what you mean. I'm only 22 and I already feel like that. Time to change my approach, I think! No use being miserable forever.
I don't know how many times I've watched this & I still tear up every time. It's especially poignant to me now, having just graduated from Exeter (where Jo went to uni).
Shame that the several-minute-long standing ovation has been cut off!
"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well." ~J.K. Rowling
Like many others, found JK Rowlings speech wise and moving. And, as a professional author and speaker in the field of personal / spiritual growth, I'll try to articulate something I sense beneath the surface of this remarkable woman — something that may never appear on her C.V. or biography, because we mistake people for the roles they play, rarely looking past convenient labels. I believe that the words, presence of the woman known as JK Rowling reflect the heart and spirit of saints and sages.
Rowling is an excellent public speaker. Her life is a wonderful example of the importance of never giving up, and an inspiration to make the most of whatever talents we may have.
i hope england is sensible enough to put a plaque in her honor in Westminster Abbey alongside Austen and Shakespeare. She has accomplished so much and is at least equal to them. What's more, she in herself is a role model and a symbol of hard work and perseverance. Thank you JK Rowling for everything you have done for the world, you have truly bettered it with your presence.
@noodlecullen We 'the UK' won't do that most likely. She's a wonderful woman, but Westminster isn't the right place to put a plaque for her. She needs her own memorial in London, a statue, because that's better for someone like her. Westminster just wouldn't be right, it's too ... historical. Not that I'm saying she's not amazing, I totally agree with you, it's just ... I can't see it happening. She deserves a statue of herself in London somehwere so everyone can see it and remember her.
I'm going to graduate next year and I can see myself watching this hours after I get my diploma and still be inspired after the number of times I have watched this.
Words cannot accurately express how great this speech was, nor how great this woman is. It is so incredible to see a billionaire whose money is of little importance to her. A woman who can possess all the material goods she could possibly crave chooses instead to lecture on kindness, on generosity.
I do not mean to disparage her peers, but it would be dishonest of me to say that she and them are alike. Everything she does, everything she writes, is based on values and beliefs.
She's amazing. This speech is so inspiring. Her books got me happy again after my life took a major turn for the worse, and I'm sure they've done the same for many others as well. Even when Harry Potter is over for good, the world will live on, I'm sure of it. She's an amazing writer and the world is lucky to have her.
@LittleMonsterGirlie It's been 13 years ... and Harry Potter isn't some book in a library gathering dust or some DVD in a store ... getting ready to be thrown away. The midnight book releases were started by the Harry Potter fandom, starting a new legacy. The word Muggle has spread beyond its Harry Potter origins, becoming one of few pop culture words to land in the Oxford English Dictionary. But that's not it, those things are just to highlight the basline of what Harry Potter has done.
@LittleMonsterGirlie Get the hell off the internet! It is her first series and she fucking took the publishing world, millions of people by storm! With her first series, she has made fucking history, affected the lives of so many children and adults etc. I say WE don't give her enough credit for it. There is so much more, than what appears flat on the page. So much more.
Rowling is such an inspiration. She's a wonderful human being, and her life's work so far is a marvellous example of how following your dreams can change the world. I hope some the 88,000 of us who have watched this video can have the courage to do the same. =]
I hope the students got her moving message. Torture under Bush and Cheney was an accepted practice. The US will have to live with this burden forever.
with her experiences and insights, it will be good to have her in politics. perhaps she can help make the change the world needs. then again, good is an understatement.
It's really neat how her experience working for Amnesty Intl clearly informed the books with respect to oppressive regimes and what not under the dark lord. Can't you imagine the snobs in the English Lit department sneering at her (because so many lit people deride her work as not having literary merit)? The jokes on them, her books plugged into the human sub concious is a really profound way!
I just about cried at the end of this. JK Rowling has a wonderful gift with words. And she gives someone like me, who has always been afraid of failure and has had her fair share of it, hope that something better will come in my future if I stick to what I believe in doing. Thank you JKR.
WOW...i totally choked up, she is completely unpretentious and humble and truly compassionate, and so inspiring!!, such beautifully chosen words. Practically every sentence she said gives a message. i am glad a person like this was able to achieve such greatness through her writing!
Honestly one of the best commencement-speeches anyone has ever given, you could tell she had the entire audience hanging onto her every word. JK Rowling what you spoke was truth and you are officially my HERO! :-D
@xochil5fluer shes bloody amazing isnt she? Im fighting tears but they are still leaking. Shes so dang strong and shes funny too this is the women who we shud point to for president or someone because shed know how to run things
one of the most fascinating things about it is its simplicity; english is not my mother tongue and yet i completely understood it and it absolutely imbued me!
She spoke about the importance of failure in that although failure is not a good thing in itself, the things we learn from it about ourselves and the world around us are incredibly important.
Also, we have the ability to empathise for other people which is very important. Choosing to ignore another's suffering will not shield you from suffering yourself; if anything you will suffer more.We have the power to shape the world around us and change people's lives for the better.
"They can refuse to hear screams or peer inside cages... I would envy people like that, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do... I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters... without ever committing evil ourselves, we collude with it through our apathy." It amazes me how well she can describe evil and yet she has remained so compassionate. I think that's why she has been able to impact the world.
Our Inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact we touch other people's lives simply by existing. What a deeply philosophical sentence embedded dashes of colours of quantum mechanics... Fascinating~!
This speech brought me to tears :) She is absolutely the most amazing writer I know of, and such a beautiful person! I can only hope to become half the writer she is through my college experience.
This is the most amazing speech I have ever heard in my life. This woman is an angel. She's my hero, and her heart, her mind, and her imagination have changed my world. I'm gonna remember this speech for the rest if my life, and I wasn't even there. No commencement speaker can beat that.
wow, such an excellent speech, one of the best ones i've ever heard.. i'm glad i accidentally stumbled upon this, very powerful and thought provoking.
JK Rowling is the greatest role model of our time. Her stories are a brilliant form of escapism, yet she is firmly grounded in reality. Her speech made me cry, as I do each time I hear her speak publicly. She's amazing
This speech is probably the most thought-provoking I've ever heard or watched. Her natural humility, kindness and honest vulnerability combined with her intelligence and writing skills just sets it apart. JK Rowling is simply an amazing person, I've never really had any sort of "idol" or "hero" growing up, but I think you would be hard put to find a better role-model than her.
JK Rowling is already a legend, she is without a doubt the greatest writer of all times, just as fantastic as JR Tolkien and Shakespear. This address will be remembered for a long time.
Love to JK Rowling who has changed my life for the better.
@eXPerienceyeah Writing is subjective. If somebody believes JK Rowling to be as good as Shakespear that is no more wrong than it is right. My own personal opinion would argue she is a greater writer as she managed to captivate the entire world, people of all ages and levels of intellect, to love one story in a way Shakespeare never did. He was very class focussed. You're entitled to your opinion but you have no right to tell someone there's is wrong.
JK Rowling is amazing and a very wise individual. Her talent and gift as a writer are equal to her beauty as a person. She will be remembered for countless generations for her writing, humor and humble nature.
She wrote her first book when she was only 7 years old. It's about a bunny. So yeah, she always aspired to be a writer. Her story is so great...someone needs to do a movie about her life. I would love to see that.
hi! I really didn't expect her to deliver such a wonderful and magical speech! Just as she said...it is not how long it is but how good it is!!! But just the same...a TEN-STAR ranking! hahaha!
This is such an incredible speech. I cried because I know I should do more with my life to help others. I will listen to this again on my own graduation day. Hopefully I will have changed my life for the better by then...
CestSiSiBon 1 week ago
She would probably hate this, but she is probably the best female orator I have heard since Margaret Thatcher.
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That's personally what I think determines her success. Not only from the number of books she's sold, how much money she's earned and how popular she's become but how she touches the hearts of people all over the world. She's certainly touched mine. And I hope one day to do the same.
ilikethislife123 3 weeks ago
That's personally what I think determines her success. Not only from the number of books she's sold, how much money she's earned and how popular she's become but how she touches the hearts of people all over the world. She's certainly touched mine. And I hope one day to do the same.
ilikethislife123 3 weeks ago
Brilliant, touching, inspiring and true speech.
Greensery 1 month ago
God save Jo!
monferno71 1 month ago
Inspiring and wise
JeffMakesVideos 1 month ago
T_T
Salocinist 1 month ago
WOW. Truly powerful.
showtime3232 2 months ago 2
Commercial for amnesty??
michaeljfreak 2 months ago
4:46 I remember every word JK had said everyday of my life.
YamazaruEiki 3 months ago 2
I'm 17 and in Arts school. I've been having a tough time because I'm there for the creative writing more than drawing and don't want to waste my time but this speech has definitely given me some hope and confidence. Thank you JK Rowling.
MonstAbetA 3 months ago
I regret not enjoying and valuing education when I had the chance. Never made real friends and don't have memories worth remembering. I'm only 25 and already feel like I've wasted so much of my life...
blablaat 3 months ago 2
@blablaat ditto mate
iaminternetfamous 3 months ago
@blablaat I understand exactly what you mean.
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@blablaat Turn it around. You can do it because I, a faceless Internet user, believe in you.
michaeljfreak 2 months ago
@blablaat Mate, totally get what you mean. I'm only 22 and I already feel like that. Time to change my approach, I think! No use being miserable forever.
scatteredstraw 2 months ago
Brilliant. Thanks for uploading this \!
JordanPAT 3 months ago
I have listened to this speech over and over and over again!!! The core of my writer being soooo stirred and soaring!!! Thanks Joe Rowling!!
Jinkelly1 3 months ago
Thank you for everything JK, you truely are the best person i'm aware of .
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what a speech!!!!
MrBlackJack93 3 months ago
I'd never forget a speech like this.
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if only I had been there, listening to every word she said .She made me feel how childish and shallow I am. She's woken me up
nnthaouyen 4 months ago
my hero!
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*bawl*
I don't know how many times I've watched this & I still tear up every time. It's especially poignant to me now, having just graduated from Exeter (where Jo went to uni).
Shame that the several-minute-long standing ovation has been cut off!
JoRowlingRocks 4 months ago 4
Jo Rowling is the younger, female and (far) less manipulative muggle equivalent of Albus Dumbledore.
popcornzoe 4 months ago 8
I'm deeply impressed. This is beyond outstanding
ghostmonkey5 5 months ago 8
I feel like I can really relate to JK Rowling. She is my new inspiration.
stargazerly20 5 months ago 5
"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well." ~J.K. Rowling
What an accurate self-description JK!
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DeKleineGenevieve, well said! "I had three parents who raised me. My mother, my father, and J.K. Rowling."
laurkar243 5 months ago
You just cant help but hang on to every word
lauraflaherty85 5 months ago
Wow.
IIemzyII 5 months ago
This woman is my childhood hero... Most things people grow out of, but what JK Rowling has given so many people, will never vanish.
fuzluv95 5 months ago 8
Like many others, found JK Rowlings speech wise and moving. And, as a professional author and speaker in the field of personal / spiritual growth, I'll try to articulate something I sense beneath the surface of this remarkable woman — something that may never appear on her C.V. or biography, because we mistake people for the roles they play, rarely looking past convenient labels. I believe that the words, presence of the woman known as JK Rowling reflect the heart and spirit of saints and sages.
danmillman 5 months ago
Rowling is an excellent public speaker. Her life is a wonderful example of the importance of never giving up, and an inspiration to make the most of whatever talents we may have.
071949 5 months ago 3
3 people are mad she took their names for Death Eaters.
jessicadawnpena 6 months ago 10
Incredible speech.
abiii321 6 months ago 2
I had goosebumps through out the whole speech.
Tenwaystokill 6 months ago 5
@Tenwaystokill I was crying for some weird reason. From about halfway through. I don't know why, maybe the wisdom got to me.
TomyHun 6 months ago 2
I am profoundly humbled by her words and her experiences.
Vulcanscienceacademy 6 months ago 4
Inspiring and humbling
Best speech I've ever heard
Chg01992 6 months ago 5
Let me just say this to JK, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!
jimdavis081 7 months ago 3
That was the best speech i ever heard
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OMG THIS TOTALLY SCANDALOUS!!!
DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!!! HE COMPLETELY RIPPED OFF HARRY POTTER!
POTTER FANS, WE MUST DENOUNCE "WARS OF TIMES: THE GODS OF TIME"
BY THIS NOBODY AUTHOR WHO CALLS HIMSELF "LUN"!!!
OMG, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! SOME PEOPLE HAVE NO SHAME!!!
BrynaRavenPuff 7 months ago
I'm crying :c
CobaltDream 7 months ago 2
How do people even get bored while she's speaking up there? Look at those faces.
That's J.K. fucking Rowling, show some respect, muggles.
pimpandprostitutetoo 7 months ago 74
what an inspiration
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Kroemike 7 months ago
Unbelieveable.
WaterEngel4 7 months ago
i wish i could BE HER
MaddieJane 7 months ago
She's simply wonderful. She's definetely someone that I look up to.
Enateese 7 months ago 2
She is my childhood.
MrStarnerd 7 months ago 14
One day I hope to open the dictionary and look under 'literary genius' and see her name.
bluebritishphonebox 7 months ago 15
i hope england is sensible enough to put a plaque in her honor in Westminster Abbey alongside Austen and Shakespeare. She has accomplished so much and is at least equal to them. What's more, she in herself is a role model and a symbol of hard work and perseverance. Thank you JK Rowling for everything you have done for the world, you have truly bettered it with your presence.
noodlecullen 7 months ago 12
@noodlecullen We 'the UK' won't do that most likely. She's a wonderful woman, but Westminster isn't the right place to put a plaque for her. She needs her own memorial in London, a statue, because that's better for someone like her. Westminster just wouldn't be right, it's too ... historical. Not that I'm saying she's not amazing, I totally agree with you, it's just ... I can't see it happening. She deserves a statue of herself in London somehwere so everyone can see it and remember her.
PandaPawSmile 7 months ago 2
Jo Rowling has touched my life just by existing.
tsoGAHHHHH 7 months ago 13
I'm going to graduate next year and I can see myself watching this hours after I get my diploma and still be inspired after the number of times I have watched this.
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Blah blah blah. And more fucking blah. And one more blah, just for good measure.
cosg9531 9 months ago
highest IQ and imagination
cheatdath 9 months ago 4
0:46, she has such still hands!!!!
WhedonsHorse 9 months ago
I keep coming back to this speech. Such wonderful and wise words from a truly remarkable human being. I am grateful for everything she has given me.
OhWowNuke 9 months ago 12
Words cannot accurately express how great this speech was, nor how great this woman is. It is so incredible to see a billionaire whose money is of little importance to her. A woman who can possess all the material goods she could possibly crave chooses instead to lecture on kindness, on generosity.
I do not mean to disparage her peers, but it would be dishonest of me to say that she and them are alike. Everything she does, everything she writes, is based on values and beliefs.
She is incredible.
WoWhistorian 10 months ago 18
I had three parents who raised me. My mother, my father, and J.K. Rowling.
DeKleineGenevieve 10 months ago 64
@DeKleineGenevieve this is the most wonderful statement i have read in a long time.
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I believe gpoy is the phrase?
palebluedot 8 months ago
What a brilliant, inspiring and timeless speech. Rowling is a truly wonderful person and a positive influence on anyone she touches.
RatRaceAce 10 months ago 9
I've watched this speech at least 5 times over the past 2 yrs.
TickleMehNancy 10 months ago 11
She's amazing. This speech is so inspiring. Her books got me happy again after my life took a major turn for the worse, and I'm sure they've done the same for many others as well. Even when Harry Potter is over for good, the world will live on, I'm sure of it. She's an amazing writer and the world is lucky to have her.
singergirl1513 10 months ago 10
she's just absolutely brilliant.
ColorMeEverything 11 months ago
@LittleMonsterGirlie It's been 13 years ... and Harry Potter isn't some book in a library gathering dust or some DVD in a store ... getting ready to be thrown away. The midnight book releases were started by the Harry Potter fandom, starting a new legacy. The word Muggle has spread beyond its Harry Potter origins, becoming one of few pop culture words to land in the Oxford English Dictionary. But that's not it, those things are just to highlight the basline of what Harry Potter has done.
FluXez00 1 year ago 4
HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE VIEWS
matrixistrue 1 year ago 13
2:37 the guy in the right-down corner *wow! look at that cloud over there! Is it the dark mark???*
RedValkyries 1 year ago
the 3 people that disliked this are still mad that she killed dobby
Jullanb 1 year ago 11
Such an inspiring woman!
NewZealandAri 1 year ago
@LittleMonsterGirlie Get the hell off the internet! It is her first series and she fucking took the publishing world, millions of people by storm! With her first series, she has made fucking history, affected the lives of so many children and adults etc. I say WE don't give her enough credit for it. There is so much more, than what appears flat on the page. So much more.
FluXez00 1 year ago 2
Rowling is such an inspiration. She's a wonderful human being, and her life's work so far is a marvellous example of how following your dreams can change the world. I hope some the 88,000 of us who have watched this video can have the courage to do the same. =]
irishmaestro 1 year ago 4
Wonderful.!
liuzhou 1 year ago
This is beautiful!
AndreCorona 1 year ago
I hope the students got her moving message. Torture under Bush and Cheney was an accepted practice. The US will have to live with this burden forever.
quallupiluit 1 year ago 5
with her experiences and insights, it will be good to have her in politics. perhaps she can help make the change the world needs. then again, good is an understatement.
princesscreative 1 year ago 6
Great Speech!!!!Just brillant.love u JK Rowling:)
Panset94 1 year ago 3
She seems to be in HP though. HAHA.
milesadmu 1 year ago
Amazing. Simply and truly amazing and awe-inspiring.
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Yeah, this woman is quite amazing. What's really magical is the way she is able to use her words. I really hope she knows how important her work is.
She's made my childhood so much happier and for that I'll be forever grateful.
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girlinyellowscarf 1 year ago
that was a damn good speech. jk rowling is awesome.
thuaners 1 year ago 2
It's really neat how her experience working for Amnesty Intl clearly informed the books with respect to oppressive regimes and what not under the dark lord. Can't you imagine the snobs in the English Lit department sneering at her (because so many lit people deride her work as not having literary merit)? The jokes on them, her books plugged into the human sub concious is a really profound way!
mttdgf 1 year ago 10
I just about cried at the end of this. JK Rowling has a wonderful gift with words. And she gives someone like me, who has always been afraid of failure and has had her fair share of it, hope that something better will come in my future if I stick to what I believe in doing. Thank you JKR.
Twethereal 1 year ago 17
JKR for prime minister!!!
snake1141 1 year ago 18
@snake1141 I want JK Rowling for president as well!! :) She'd be the most amazing president ever!!
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*this should be the default commencement speech for all universities :-) ...no really I am totally serious
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xochil5fluer 1 year ago
WOW...i totally choked up, she is completely unpretentious and humble and truly compassionate, and so inspiring!!, such beautifully chosen words. Practically every sentence she said gives a message. i am glad a person like this was able to achieve such greatness through her writing!
Honestly one of the best commencement-speeches anyone has ever given, you could tell she had the entire audience hanging onto her every word. JK Rowling what you spoke was truth and you are officially my HERO! :-D
xochil5fluer 1 year ago 101
@xochil5fluer shes bloody amazing isnt she? Im fighting tears but they are still leaking. Shes so dang strong and shes funny too this is the women who we shud point to for president or someone because shed know how to run things
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I would cry if we had such a speech at our univercity
tovstenko 1 year ago 2
She is my hero.
galleryofbrokenparts 1 year ago 5
one of the most fascinating things about it is its simplicity; english is not my mother tongue and yet i completely understood it and it absolutely imbued me!
animeheartofpassion 1 year ago 5
what is this speech about i have an english project to do and i dont understand it some1 explain it to me
jene37 1 year ago
@jene37 If you would like me to transcript it for you I will.Or is it just the meaning of the speech you would like?
lheathblue 1 year ago
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She spoke about the importance of failure in that although failure is not a good thing in itself, the things we learn from it about ourselves and the world around us are incredibly important.
Also, we have the ability to empathise for other people which is very important. Choosing to ignore another's suffering will not shield you from suffering yourself; if anything you will suffer more.We have the power to shape the world around us and change people's lives for the better.
MyNameBirthYear 1 year ago 9
"They can refuse to hear screams or peer inside cages... I would envy people like that, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do... I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters... without ever committing evil ourselves, we collude with it through our apathy." It amazes me how well she can describe evil and yet she has remained so compassionate. I think that's why she has been able to impact the world.
MidwesternDiva 1 year ago 14
bored bimbo at 0:52 lols
hinessa 1 year ago
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
arlpoon 1 year ago 19
Our Inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact we touch other people's lives simply by existing. What a deeply philosophical sentence embedded dashes of colours of quantum mechanics... Fascinating~!
thewhatever379only 1 year ago 5
Stupendous~
thewhatever379only 1 year ago
This speech brought me to tears :) She is absolutely the most amazing writer I know of, and such a beautiful person! I can only hope to become half the writer she is through my college experience.
rockkstarr2011 1 year ago 4
After this speech, Miss J.K Rowling, I hereby forgive you for killing off Hedwig.
maxtreme225 1 year ago 232
This is the most amazing speech I have ever heard in my life. This woman is an angel. She's my hero, and her heart, her mind, and her imagination have changed my world. I'm gonna remember this speech for the rest if my life, and I wasn't even there. No commencement speaker can beat that.
mervin1223 1 year ago 10
we dont need magic to save the world
ndesai256 1 year ago 13
Incredible.
azguard98 1 year ago 4
I cried
shethewriter 1 year ago 7
Truly amazing. Inspiring to the core.
Puddin9xo 1 year ago 7
This speech gave me chills.
danrdrewf 1 year ago 11
"People who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters."
Now THOSE are good friends.
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RoyaltyInPink 1 year ago
Really? You must not have heard too many. It is not bad though.
CrispNightmareCrew 1 year ago
wow, such an excellent speech, one of the best ones i've ever heard.. i'm glad i accidentally stumbled upon this, very powerful and thought provoking.
laurandz 1 year ago 15
Watch the Steve Jobs Stanford commencement speech if you liked this one. Enjoy!
lambent77777 1 year ago 3
aww I stumbled on this and it makes me smile. :)
Laenerin 1 year ago 3
made me cry.
what a speech.
leekitee 1 year ago 11
JK Rowling is the greatest role model of our time. Her stories are a brilliant form of escapism, yet she is firmly grounded in reality. Her speech made me cry, as I do each time I hear her speak publicly. She's amazing
Tragoola08 1 year ago 9
great speech, very inspiring
iluvdancin 2 years ago 3
i wish j.k. rowling would speak at MY graduation.
great speech!
ZAPdontlook 2 years ago 6
Life changing.
kira902k 2 years ago 5
untouchably good!
salatbuks 2 years ago 5
This speech is probably the most thought-provoking I've ever heard or watched. Her natural humility, kindness and honest vulnerability combined with her intelligence and writing skills just sets it apart. JK Rowling is simply an amazing person, I've never really had any sort of "idol" or "hero" growing up, but I think you would be hard put to find a better role-model than her.
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You put into words exactly what I was feeling. J.K. Rowling is truly a rare and beautiful person.
swimmer24100 1 year ago
What is up with the guy in the middle of the crowd at 2:51.
A little creepy...
eddiesanford07 2 years ago
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Omg, that is the scariest screen shot ever. Not only him, but the people around him look creepy.
anythingnew 1 year ago
@anythingnew they're death eaters!
arlpoon 1 year ago
This speech was immensely transformative. I feel shaken, touched and inspired. Hooray for J K Rowling!
Beeza2996 2 years ago 12
I loved it.
24adhoc 2 years ago 3
Wow...(applauding)
mboughan1 2 years ago 4
Definitely among the best speeches I have ever heard.
birchmanllc 2 years ago 13
That speech was wonderful.
I agree, hats off to JKR.
mercy35687 2 years ago 11
Thank you for changing my reality.
lightandsalt 2 years ago 13
Yea Class of '08!
itwillbealright 2 years ago
One of the most inspirational speech i had ever heard. Hats off to JKR
eprasu 2 years ago 10
Such elegant writing.... :)
rugbyplayer9999 2 years ago 5
JK Rowling speech was the most thoughtful speeches I have ever heard. I hope Obama hears it.
074August 2 years ago 13
(standing and applauding)
venom6622 2 years ago 5
wonderful...
devkamal 2 years ago 5
I love her so much!
A brilliant, profound person with such a sens of humor!!
JoanJoan1989 2 years ago 11
JK Rowling is already a legend, she is without a doubt the greatest writer of all times, just as fantastic as JR Tolkien and Shakespear. This address will be remembered for a long time.
Love to JK Rowling who has changed my life for the better.
RickiLyng 2 years ago 186
@RickiLyng That is ridiculous. If you ever read one paragraph of Shakespeare you would realize how utterly wrong your comment is.
eXPerienceyeah 1 year ago
@eXPerienceyeah Writing is subjective. If somebody believes JK Rowling to be as good as Shakespear that is no more wrong than it is right. My own personal opinion would argue she is a greater writer as she managed to captivate the entire world, people of all ages and levels of intellect, to love one story in a way Shakespeare never did. He was very class focussed. You're entitled to your opinion but you have no right to tell someone there's is wrong.
Matty3Mite3 1 year ago 14
what a great speech
bennett5058 2 years ago 7
JK Rowling is amazing and a very wise individual. Her talent and gift as a writer are equal to her beauty as a person. She will be remembered for countless generations for her writing, humor and humble nature.
mbc1703 2 years ago 14
The most incredible speech Ive ever heard
jt101010 2 years ago 15
she is a beautiful women. but she has such a sad face...:( even her smiles look sad
AcaciaFlower 2 years ago 11
I was there!
definitely one of the most inspiring days of my life.
OhCuriousJo 2 years ago 18
Mopping the floors? Lol. No that's sick that you were there. Are you a Harvard grad?
crazysoccerman14 2 years ago
nope, but my brother was. I'm just a big JKR fan.
OhCuriousJo 2 years ago
That's awesome man. I bet it had to be a great experience for you :)
crazysoccerman14 2 years ago
Love her. She's wise and funny at the same time, a terrific combiantion
mohitminshu 2 years ago 12
and..... a brilliant writer and a huge inspiration.
jobroslover89 2 years ago 8
Lmao. I love the part about naming Death eaters after her best friends! LOVE it! I always wondered where she came up with some of those names. :D
iwantorlando05 2 years ago 12
the speech was great and funny at the same time i think jo is great
besides i didn know she had always wanted to write novels
i thought she'd just had this good idea of a boy studying magic :)
that's great cause its like her dream did come true
majoo39 3 years ago 9
She wrote her first book when she was only 7 years old. It's about a bunny. So yeah, she always aspired to be a writer. Her story is so great...someone needs to do a movie about her life. I would love to see that.
iwantorlando05 2 years ago 5
for using their names for death eaters lol
majoo39 3 years ago 3
What did she say in the near end why her friends did not sue her for?
schchen2000 3 years ago
i skipped thru the bill gates one cos it was crap till the end part. but this one makes a lot of sense
legit123abc 3 years ago
hi! I really didn't expect her to deliver such a wonderful and magical speech! Just as she said...it is not how long it is but how good it is!!! But just the same...a TEN-STAR ranking! hahaha!
sckl15cc 3 years ago 5
I'd like to meet her friends. That's so funny! Death Eaters. I'm writing a book, and I'm using my friends names too. It's pretty fun.
Such an amazing and great speech! She's so wise, and kind, and knowledgable. I hope I can meet this great woman one day in my life.
WinxGirl1766137 3 years ago 5
I didn't know she had it in her..
What a person. Awesome speech too.
hugefuckingnutz 3 years ago 2
Jeez, brought tears to my eyes.
anhacus 3 years ago 6
yeah - to mine too :)
chiaroo10 3 years ago 5
Wow, what a speach.
stillavril 3 years ago 2
I'm hb151, and I approve of this speech.
hachibeach151 3 years ago 4
very inspiring speech!