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

• “I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.” — Maya Angelou
• “Love reduces the complexity of living.” — Anais Nin
• “To love one's work is a way of loving oneself, and leaves one freer to love other people.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 5

• “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 6

• “There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.” — Maya Angelou
• “You cannot save people, you can only love them.” — Anais Nin
• “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 7

• “You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.” — Maya Angelou
• “I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” — Anais Nin
• “Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 1

• “The longer you wait, the harder it gets.” — The 40 Year-Old Virgin
• “Reality is a thing of the past.” — The Matrix
• “A man went looking for America, and he couldn't find it anywhere." —Easy Rider

Speaker 2

• “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 3

• “A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere.” — Fargo
• “Everyone has one special thing.” — Boogie Nights
• “Work sucks.” — Office Space

Speaker 4

• “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 5

• “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 6

• “Nothing spreads like fear.” — Contagion
• “All the power on earth can’t change destiny." — The Godfather Part III
• “Everyone wants to be found." — Lost in Translation

Speaker 7

• “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

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

• Only 8% of people manage to keep their New Year’s resolutions. — Statistic Brain Research Institute, 2012
• Between 43% and 54% of pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying.— European Cockpit Association, 2012
• 15% of Google searches have never been searched before. — John Wiley, the lead designer for Google Search, 2013

Speaker 3

• 20% of the songs on Spotify have received zero plays. — Forgotify, 2014
• 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
• 70% of youth in the juvenile justice system have a diagnosed mental illness.— The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, 2007
  
  

Speaker 4

• 1 in 3 adults don’t get enough sleep. — Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016
• The world needs to produce at least 50% more food by 2050 to feed a projected 9 billion people. — United Nations Population Division, 2015
• Only 18% of women major in computer science degrees at colleges and universities. — National Science Foundation, 2015
  

Speaker 5

• 60% of nursing home residents never have visitors. — VolunteerGuide, 2013
• 75% of Gen Z-ers don’t consider college the only path to a strong education. — Forbes, 2019
• 46% of American adults will experience a mental illness during their lifetime. — National Council for Behavioral Health, 2019
  
  

Speaker 6

• 84% of Americans say we are angrier than a generation ago. — NPR-IBM Watson Health Poll, 2019
• Fewer than 2% of NCAA athletes go on to the professional level. — NCAA, 2018
• One-third of adults still sleep with a comfort object. — Sleepopolis, 2019
  

Speaker 7

• As many as 95% of millennials are "not saving adequately" for retirement. — National Institute on Retirement Security, 2018
• 40% of Americans can’t name a single freedom protected by the First Amendment.  — Freedom Forum Institute, 2018
• Five countries make up 60% of worldwide military.  — Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2018