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different and crazy."
• The special keynote speaker for the evening was 2010-2011 National FFA Vice President Wyatt DeJong, Winner, SD. DeJong talked about how uncomfortable moments drive us forward and offered a chance to grow.
• "Don't make excuses," DeJong said. "Go out and experience life."
• He also quoted a fellow National Officer who has been blind his whole life, and still sets out to achieve great things.
• "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary," DeJong quoted, "Is the little extra."
• DeJong also showed a video clip of two cheetahs hunting a gazelle. The gazelle was able to out run the cheetahs and get away.
• "Don't let the cheetahs (problems or excuses) of the world stop you from doing what you want to do," DeJong said. "Run with the intensity of the gazelle, don't let the Cheetahs over take you."

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