C. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 10:00 am (central)
Speaker 1
“Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.”
- Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 2
“Grief changes shape but it never ends.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“Multi-culture is the real culture of the world — a pure race doesn’t exist.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.”
- Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 3
“Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.”
- Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 4
“I don’t want to be a part of a world where being kind is a weakness.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“I was raised to treat people exactly how I would like to be treated by others. It’s called respect.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.”
- Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 5
“I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.”
- Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 6
“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.”
- Keanu Reeves.
“I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a cliché of myself.”
- Keanu Reeves.
Round 2 11:15 am (central)
Speaker 1
-Laurence Fishburne
“I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed.”
-Laurence Fishburne
“It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.”
-Laurence Fishburne
Speaker 2
“It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.”
“I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.”
-Laurence Fishburne
“It's nice to get feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.”
-Laurence Fishburne
Speaker 3
-Laurence Fishburne
“Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.”
-Laurence Fishburne
“I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.”
-Laurence Fishburne
Speaker 4
“Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.”
-Laurence Fishburne
“Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.”
-Laurence Fishburne
“I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.”
-Laurence Fishburne
Speaker 5
“On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.”
-Laurence Fishburne
“In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.”
-Laurence Fishburne
“When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.”
-Laurence Fishburne
Speaker 6
“It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger.”
-Laurence Fishburne
“I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.”
-Laurence Fishburne
“We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.”
-Laurence Fishburne
C/B Finals 4:00 pm (central)
Speaker 1
“Human beings are a disease. A cancer of this planet.”
- Agent Smith (The Matrix)
“Denial is the most predictable of all human responses”
- The Architect (The Matrix Reloaded)
“It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.”
- Merovingian (The Matrix Revolutions)
Speaker 2
“I can only show you the door. You’re the one who has to walk through it.”
- Morpheus (The Matrix)
“Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.”
- Merovingian (The Matrix Reloaded)
“The purpose of life is to end.”
- Agent Smith (The Matrix Revolutions)
Speaker 3
“What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life.”
- Morpheus (The Matrix)
“Choice. The problem is, choice.”
- Neo (The Matrix Reloaded)
“Everything that has a beginning has an end.”
- Agent Smith (The Matrix Revolutions)
Speaker 4
“Never send a human to do a machine’s job.”
- Agent Smith (The Matrix)
“What do all men with power want? More power.”
- The Oracle (The Matrix Reloaded)
“Nothing this weak is meant to survive.”
- Bane (The Matrix Revolutions)
Speaker 5
“To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.”
- Mouse (The Matrix)
“Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.”
- The Architect (The Matrix Reloaded)
“Not all seke to control, just as not all wish to be free.”
- Morpheus (The Matrix Resurrections)
Speaker 6
“The body cannot live without the mind.”
- Morpheus (The Matrix)
“Denial is the most predictable of any human response.”
- The Oracle (The Matrix Reloaded)
“Chasing you is like chasing a ghost.”
- Agent Smith (The Matrix Revolutions)
Speaker 7
“Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”
- Morpheus (The Matrix)
“We do only what we are meant to do.”
- The Keymaker (The Matrix Reloaded)
“Did you know that hope and despair are nearly identical in code?”
- The Analyst (The Matrix Resurrection)
Speaker 8
“There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”
- Morpheus (The Matrix)
“If one fails, they all fail.”
- The Keymaker (The Matrix Reloaded)
“Choice is an illusion.”
- Bugs (The Matrix Resurrections)