B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
RD1 IE
Speaker 1
“Anger wants a voice. Voices wanna sing. Singers harmonize ‘til they can't hear anything” Vampire Weekend
“I never sleep cuz sleep is the cousin of death.” Nas
Speaker 2
“I was dreaming of tomorrow so I sacrificed today and it sure was a grand waste of time.” Billy Joel
”I was scared of dentists and the dark.” Vance Joy
Speaker 3
“There’s still time to change the road you’re on.” Led Zepplin
“If life were so easy and not so fast I wouldn't think about the past.” Phish
Speaker 4
”No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man.” The Who
“You can't go forcing something if it's just not right.” Green Day
Speaker 5
“Wrinkles only go where smiles have been” Jimmy Buffett
“I struggled with destiny up on the ledge and gasped when defeated he slipped from the edge.” Phish
Speaker 6
”Nobody said it was easy.” Coldplay
“If you want to touch the sky, better learn how to kneel.” U2
RD2 IE
Speaker 1
"I've realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it," --Tina Fey, Bossypants
”How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” —Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Speaker 2
”The past is always tense, the future perfect.” —Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind
"We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power."--Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Speaker 3
“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”― Tina Fey, Bossypants
“If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.” --Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Speaker 4
“The first step towards nonviolence is to begin to think critically, and to ask others to do the same.”― Judith Butler
”The point of art is to not make us feel better but to make us more.”—Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty
Speaker 5
”Language is a map of the world.”—Robert MacFarlane, Landmarks
“Happiness depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.”― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Speaker 6
“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”― Will Rogers, Column in the New York Times
”Fear is a way of imagining the future.”—Eula Biss, On Immunity
RD3 IE
Speaker 1
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” — Al Capone (Chicago mob boss)
”You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” Robin Williams, born in Chicago
Speaker 2
”Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” Betty White, born in Illinois
”In Illinois, the horizon seems bigger and the skies are endless.” Ernest Hemingway
Speaker 3
“From the streets of Chicago to the halls of the Senate, I’ve seen how ordinary people can do extraordinary things.” ---Barack Obama (Former Illinois Senator)
“The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel,” --JB Pritzker, Illinois
Speaker 4
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”— Adlai Stevenson II (Former Illinois governor)
Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being. They require the mental capacity to step past our most primal urges,” JB Pritzker, Illinois Governor
Speaker 5
”We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less second chance.” Harrison Ford, born in Chicago
”The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.” Bill Murray, born in Illinois
Speaker 6
”Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing.” Aretha Franklin, raised in Chicago
”Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.” Bill Murray, born in Illinois