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Entrepreneurs on Fire

Patti Smith's Commencement Address

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Patti Smith's Commencement Address at Pratt Institute, 2010.

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Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought

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to you by the Hubsbot Podcast Network with great shows like the MarTech Podcast. Today

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we'll be sharing a special episode that is part of a series that we've created of

0:18.2

the greatest graduation speeches of all time that have been some fantastic commencement

0:23.4

talks over the past few decades and we've collected the best of the best for you to enjoy

0:28.1

as soon as we get back from thinking our sponsors. Fire Nation is time to stop trading time

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0:54.0

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0:58.6

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1:08.2

Podcast Network at hubspot.com slash podcast network. Welcome to the commencement address

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from Patty Smith who is a singer songwriter and this is for the Pratt Institute back in

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2010. Hello everybody. I've been thinking about you all these

1:28.1

last few weeks. I've been thinking about what I could talk about could be Moby Dick, the

1:33.6

slaves of Michelangelo, Hans Hoffman, my bloody Valentine. But now that I'm here my greatest

1:40.5

urge is to speak to you of dental care. My generation had a rough go dendtally. Our

1:46.9

dentists were the army dentists who came back from World War II and believed that the dental

1:51.4

office was a battlegrounds. You have a better chance at dental health. And I say this because

1:57.5

you want at night to be pacing on the floor because your muse is burning inside of you

2:02.7

because you want to do your work because you want to finish that canvas because you want

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