C. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 12:30
Speaker 1
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” – Darth Vader (Star Wars)
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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)
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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)
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
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.
“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.
“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)
Round 2 - 5:15 - NFA 5:30
Speaker 1
Time and tide wait for no man.
Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet.
“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
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."- Dr. Emmett Brown, Back To The Future
"Me, I always tell the truth, even when I lie!"- Tony Montana, Scarface
Round 3 - 5:15
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
Semis - 5:15
Speaker 1
“Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” – Barbara Gittings
"I'll sleep when I'm dead.” - Warren Zevon
“How can I be lost if I’ve got nowhere to go?” -Metallica
Speaker 2
"If the story’s over, why am I still writing pages?” – Taylor Swift
“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.” -C.S. Lewis
“Learning is creation, not consumption.” -George Couros
Speaker 3
“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible and entirely ignored.” -David Levithan
“If you stop dreaming, you're just sleeping”. - Ralph Green
“Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn’t it? If you’re comfortable while you’re doing it, you’re probably doing it wrong.” – Ted Lasso
Speaker 4
“It’s useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing.” – Frodo Baggins
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” – Socrates
“In politics, it’s what isn’t said that matters.” – K.J. Parker
Speaker 5
“If you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.” – Tupac Shakur
“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.” – Alfred Hitchcock
“Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.” – Lise Meitner
Speaker 6
“Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
“When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.” -Charles Baxter
“The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose.” – Ernie Banks
Finals - 8:00
Speaker 1
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
Speaker 2
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valéry
Speaker 3
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." - Audre Lorde
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between." - Sylvia Plath
"You don't have to be perfect to be amazing." - Unknown
Speaker 4
"You can't change who you are, and you shouldn't have to." - Laverne Cox
"The purpose of education is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions." - James Baldwin
"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all." - Zora Neale Hurston
Speaker 5
“As always in life, people want a simple answer… and it’s always wrong.” – Susan Greenfield
“Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
“When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.” -Charles Baxter
Speaker 6
“You have to be odd to be number one.” -Dr. Seuss
"We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity." - George Takei
"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." - Morticia Addams