B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 12:15 PM
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
―“My mother always used to say, “The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.”
-Betty White
Speaker 2
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
―“If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.”
-Betty White
Speaker 3
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
―“Butterflies are like women — we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane.”
-Betty White
Speaker 4
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
―“Laughter keeps everyone feeling wonderful.”
-Betty White
Speaker 5
“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
―If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.”
-Betty White
Speaker 6
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
―You can’t become a professional mournerReplay the good times. Be grateful for the years you had.”
-Betty White
Speaker 7
“Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.”
―-Betty White
Round 2 - 3:15 PM
Speaker 1
“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”
-Sir Sidney Poitier
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
-bell hooks
Speaker 2
“I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.”
-Sir Sidney Poitier
“Living simply makes loving simple.”
-bell hooks
Speaker 3
"Every new fashion is a form of rebellion."
-Sir Sidney Poitier“Being oppressed means the absence of choices.”
-bell hooks
Speaker 4
“In America, it is difficult to be your own man.”
-Sir Sidney Poitier
“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”
-bell hooks
Speaker 5
“I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.”
-Sir Sidney Poitier
“One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.”
-bell hooks
Speaker 6
"A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better."
-Sir Sidney Poitier
“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.”
-bell hooks
Speaker 7
"If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be."
-Sir Sidney Poitier
“There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.”
-bell hooks
Finals - 5:00 PM
Speaker 1
“The road to hell is strewn with roses.”
-Mexican proverb“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
―Speaker 2
“The envious never give praise, they only take it in.”
-Mexican proverb“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
―Speaker 3
“Everyone makes firewood of a fallen tree.”
-Mexican proverb“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?”
―Speaker 4
“Though a cage may be made of gold, it is still a cage.”
-Mexican proverb“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
―Speaker 5
“A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch.”
-Mexican proverb“Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
―Speaker 6
“One string is good enough to a good musician.”
-Mexican proverb“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
―Speaker 7
“He who is accustomed to evil is offended by good.”
-Mexican proverb“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
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