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