Speaker 1

"It's in our hands." — Jill Stein 2016

"We are the ones we've been waiting for." – Barack Obama 2008

"We are turning the corner." — Herbert Hoover 1932

Speaker 2

"We're all in this together." — Beto O’Rourke 2020

“Yes we can.” — Barack Obama 2008

"Tell the Truth!" — Grover Cleveland 1884

Speaker 3

"Our Future Is Now." — Tim Ryan 2020

"We Can Do Better." — John F. Kennedy 1960

"We are going to win this war and the peace that follows." – Franklin D. Roosevelt 1944

Speaker 4

"Our best days still lie ahead." — Joe Biden 2020

"It's Time to Change America." – Bill Clinton 1992

"Some people talk change, others cause it." – Hubert Humphrey 1968

Speaker 1

"Money can't buy life."

— Bob Marley, Jamaican musician

"I knew it! Born in a goddamned hotel room, and dying in a hotel room."

— Eugene O'Neill, American playwright

"The drama's over. Applaud."

— Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor

Speaker 2

"I'm finished. I don't even trust myself."

— Joseph Stalin

"I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is correct."

— Dominique Bouhours, French priest and grammarian

"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart..."

— Anne Frank, German diarist

Speaker 3

"At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves."

— George Orwell, English author, dying at the age of 46

“Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”

— Karl Marx, political theorist

"All the damn fool things you do in life you pay for."

— Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter

Speaker 4

“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”

— Huey P. Newton, American activist

"I'm bored with it all."

— Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom

"Happy."

— Raphael, Italian artist

Speaker 1

“When people show you who they are, believe them.” — Maya Angelou

“I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.” — Anais Nin

“We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 2

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me ‘I love you.’” — Maya Angelou

“We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.” — Anais Nin

“I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 3

“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.” — Maya Angelou

“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.” — Anais Nin

“Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 4

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou

“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.” — Anais Nin

“So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 1

“If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards.” — Tommy Boy

“We scare because we care.” — Monsters, Inc.

“Love is a force of nature.” — Brokeback Mountain

Speaker 2

“Whoever wins, we lose.” — Alien vs. Predator

“Great trilogies come in threes.” — Scary Movie 3

“There is no gene for the human spirit.” — Gattaca

Speaker 3

“Family isn’t a word. It’s a sentence.” — The Royal Tenenbaums

“Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they like you.” — Clerks

“Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions." — Donnie Darko

Speaker 4

“You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” — The Social Network

“On every street in every city in this country, there is a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.” — Taxi Driver

“The future is history.” — 12 Monkeys

Speaker 1

1. It is estimated that 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. — New York Times, 2014

2. 60% of people can’t get through a ten-minute conversation without lying. — University of Massachusetts, 2002

2% of American voters thought Mitt Romney’s first name was Mittens. — Vanity Fair, 2012

Speaker 2

1. 20% of the songs on Spotify have received zero plays.

 — Forgotify, 2014

2. 28% of people who work in IT don’t tell their family and friends for fear of being asked for help fixing computers. 

— TEKsystems, 2013

3. 70% of youth in the juvenile justice system have a diagnosed mental illness.

— The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, 2007

Speaker 3

1. 60% of nursing home residents never have visitors.

— VolunteerGuide, 2013

2. 75% of Gen Z-ers don’t consider college the only path to a strong education.

— Forbes, 2019

3. 46% of American adults will experience a mental illness during their lifetime.

— National Council for Behavioral Health, 2019

Speaker 4

1. As many as 95% of millennials are "not saving adequately" for retirement.

— National Institute on Retirement Security, 2018

2. 40% of Americans can’t name a single freedom protected by the First Amendment. 

— Freedom Forum Institute, 2018

3. Five countries make up 60% of worldwide military. 

— Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2018