Speaker 1

“Your focus determines your reality.”- George Lucas

“Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.”- Joseph Joubert

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”- Samuel Beckett

Speaker 2

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” – Maya Angelou

“Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?” – Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”- John F. Kennedy

Speaker 3

“Never doubt that you are powerful and valuable and deserving of every change in the world to pursue your dreams.” – Hilary Clinton

“So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause.” – Padme Amidala (Star Wars)

“I am not afraid of an army led by sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”- Alexander the Great

Speaker 4

“Rebellions are built on hope.” – Jyn Erso (Star Wars/Rogue One)

“We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.”- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Speaker 5

“Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Never tell me the odds.” – Han Solo (Star Wars)

"No amount of money has ever bought a second of time.” - Tony Stark (Marvel/Avengers: Endgame)

Speaker 6

“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Without justice, there can be no love.” – bell hooks

"Understanding you does not mean that I agree with you.” – Tech (Star Wars/The Bad Batch)

Speaker 1

“You have to be odd to be number one.”- Dr. Seuss

“Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet.”- African Proverb

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Speaker 2

“Dream with ambition, lead with conviction, and you will be applauded every step of the way.” – Kamala Harris

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge

Speaker 3

"How is never as important as why.” - Namor (Marvel/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” – Buddha

Speaker 4

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” – W.E. . DuBois

“Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.” – Carol Burnett

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot

Speaker 5

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss

“If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” – Zanele Muholi

“It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.”– Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Speaker 6

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” - Amelia Earhart

“Just because you are cynical doesn’t mean you are deep.”- Alvy Lafayette  

"Me, I always tell the truth, even when I lie!"- Tony Montana, Scarface

Speaker 1

"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

“On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.” – Kevin Flynn/Clu, Tron

“Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.” - Fran Lebowitz

Speaker 2

“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." - Westley, The Princess Bride

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” - Anthony Burgess

“Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.” - Conor Oberst

Speaker 3

“We never lose our demons. We only learn to live above them.” - The Ancient One (Marvel/Doctor Strange)

“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.” – Audre Lorde

“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers”.– Bayard Rustin

Speaker 4

“I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.” - Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

“We are all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.” - Andrew, The Breakfast Club

“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.” - Baltasar Gracian

Speaker 5

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” - Phyllis Diller

“I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.” - Chinese Proverb

“When a camel is at the foot of a mountain, only then judge its height.” – Indian Proverb

Speaker 6

“Bad gas travels real fast in a small town.” – Wayne from Letterkenny

“If you’re creating anything at all, it’s really dangerous to care about what people think.” – Kristen Wiig

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” – Mark Twain

Speaker 1

“Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.”- Margaret Atwood

“Nice is different than good.”- Little Red (Into the Woods) 

“Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.”- Jill Biden

Speaker 2

“Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.”- Margaret Atwood

“Worrying means you suffer twice.”- Newt Scanander (Fantastic Beasts) 

“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.”- Lady Bird Johnson

Speaker 3

“For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.”- Margaret Atwood

“When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.”- Bojack Horseman

“Great necessities call out great virtues.”- Abigail Adams

Speaker 4

“Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.”- Margaret Atwood

“Of course it’s happening inside your head, but why should that mean it isn’t real?”- Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

Speaker 5

“The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.”- Margaret Atwood

Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”- Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones) 

“I don't have time to be depressed.”- Pat Nixon

Speaker 6

“A word after a word after a word is power.”- Margaret Atwood

“Everything has to end sometime. Otherwise, nothing would ever get started.”- Dr. Who (11th) 

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”- Rosalynn Carter

Speaker 7

“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”- Margaret Atwood

“Sometimes the road less traveled is traveled less for a reason.”- Jerry Seinfeld 

“I want to live my life, not record it.”- Jackie Kennedy

Speaker 8

“War is what happens when language fails.”- Margaret Atwood

“A government is a body of people, usually, notably ungoverned.”- Shepard Book (Firefly)

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”- Eleanor Roosevelt