C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    In a dark place we find ourselves and a little more knowledge lights our way.
    Walk away from it until you’re stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you’ll be better able to cope. --Lady Bird Johnson
    I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. --Rosa Parks

  2. Speaker 2


    He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas. --Benjamin Franklin
    Hunger is the best pickle. --Benjamin Franklin
    Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. --Albert Einstein

  3. Speaker 3


    Change is such hard work. --Billy Crystal
    The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. --Benjamin Franklin
    He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. --Benjamin Franklin

  4. Speaker 4


    To be great is to be misunderstood.
    Faint hearts never won fair lady
    Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. --George Washington

  5. Speaker 5


    I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. --Barack Obama
    An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. --Andy Warhol
    If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  6. Speaker 6


    If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
    We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. --Lucretia Mott
    If watchin' is all you're gonna do, then you're gonna watch your life go by without ya

  7. Speaker 7


    "The language of film is universal.” --— Intro to Movies
    "The better is the enemy of the good.” --— Voltaire
    Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. --Howard Zinn

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him. --Dostoyevsky
    To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. --Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.” --— Murray Rothbard

  2. Speaker 2


    Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. --Arthur Ashe
    Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. --Albert Camus
    “A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.” --— Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man

  3. Speaker 3


    Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children. --Hillary Clinton
    Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for. --Joseph Heller (Catch 22)
    Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  4. Speaker 4


    You just focused on the bad stuff when all you had to do was let go of the past and keep moving forward --Meet the Robinsons
    "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” --— Margaret Mead
    There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. --Antisthenes

  5. Speaker 5


    “I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that one steps near and begins to speak." --— Rumi
    If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
    Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. --Mark Twain

  6. Speaker 6


    In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck.
    Banish the word struggle from our attitude and vocabulary. --Except from “To My Fellow Swimmers” by the Elders of the Hopi Nation
    The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. --Blaise Pascal

  7. Speaker 7


    If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. --Toni Morrison
    Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
    I trust myself. You need that to survive.

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance. --Alex Rodriguez
    "Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.” --— George Sand
    “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” --— Noam Chomsky

  2. Speaker 2


    I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards --Abraham Lincoln
    To infinity, and beyond!
    No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. --Andrew Carnegie

  3. Speaker 3


    Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. --Aldous Huxley
    “History is a set of lies agreed upon” --— Napoleon Bonaparte
    No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. --Andrew Carnegie

  4. Speaker 4


    "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.” --— Roberto Clemente
    If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. --Abraham Maslow
    If you’re able to protest, protest. If you’re able to volunteer, volunteer. --Ad-Rock

  5. Speaker 5


    The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead. --BoJack Horseman
    Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
    It’s important to always look where you’re headed rather than where you were

  6. Speaker 6


    I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. --Anne Frank
    “If you allow the government to break the law and to violate your rights because of an emergency, what’s stopping them from creating an emergency to break the law?” --— James Harvey
    I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. --Florence Nightingale

  7. Speaker 7


    This cannot be a team of common men because common men go nowhere. You have to be uncommon --Miracle
    "If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.” --— George Bernard Shaw
    “We are living in an age that glorifies the single study." --— Nina Strohminger

Elim 2

  1. Speaker 1


    The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. --Gilbert K Chesterton
    Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
    Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.

  2. Speaker 2


    The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
    “In the land of ideas, you are always renting.” --— Steven Soderbergh
    Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

  3. Speaker 3


    Half a truth is often a great lie. --Benjamin Franklin
    For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves. --Anne Heche
    There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship. --Ai Weiwei

  4. Speaker 4


    It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. --Abraham Lincoln
    It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. --Benjamin Franklin
    Value your friendship. Value your relationships. --Barbara Bush

  5. Speaker 5


    Oh, my God, they killed Kenny!
    "The only essential difference between rock, water, air, life, galaxies, economies, civilizations, plastics is the rate of flow." --— Donovan Hohn
    There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. --Benjamin Franklin

  6. Speaker 6


    Government should never be able to do anything you can't do.
    Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
    Love and success, always in that order. It's that simple AND that difficult. --Fred Rogers

  7. Speaker 7


    There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. --Alexander Hamilton
    Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort. --Fred Rogers
    The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. --Frank Lloyd Wright