B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 10:00am Pacific Time

  1. Speaker 1


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       Speaker 1: 

    “Once you’ve done something that you used to think was impossible, what could ever really scare you again?” —Ellen Page


    “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”

    —Dr. Mae Jemison


    "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." — Virginia Woolf


  2. Speaker 2


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    Speaker 2:

    “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”

    —W.E.B. Du Bois


    “I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.”  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez


    "I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act." — Janet Mock


  3. Speaker 3


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    Speaker 3:

    “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”—Coretta Scott King


    “I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.” —Eva Perón


    "Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start." -Jason Collins


  4. Speaker 4


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    Speaker 4:

    “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”—Carol Moseley-Braun


    "Without justice there can be no love." — bell hooks


    To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. -Bayard Rustin


  5. Speaker 5


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    Speaker 5:

    “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” —Langston Hughes


    “If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” ― Shirley Chisholm


    We are powerful because we have survived. -Audre Lorde



  6. Speaker 6


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    Speaker 6:

    “Have a vision. Be demanding.” —Colin Powell


    “When the whole world is silent even one voice becomes powerful.” - Malala Yousafzai 


    Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up, and start to fight. -Harvey Milk


  7. Speaker 7


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Round 2 - 2:45pm Pacific Time

  1. Speaker 1


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    Speaker 1:

    “Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.” ― Robert Penn Warren


    “The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.”― Robert Penn Warren


    “Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”  ―Shirley MacLaine


  2. Speaker 2


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    Speaker 2:

    “It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.” ―Shirley MacLaine


    “I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.”  ―Kelly Clarkson


    “We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us” ―William J. Brennan Jr.


  3. Speaker 3


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    Speaker 3:

    “Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.” ―Shirley MacLaine


    Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. ―Carol Burnett


    “Music is the universal language, it brings people closer together.” ―Ella Fitzgerald


  4. Speaker 4


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    Speaker 4:

    “I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.” ―Barbra Streisand


    “What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.” ―Ella Fitzgerald


    “I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.” ―Al Pacino


  5. Speaker 5


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    Speaker 5:

    “I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.”  ―Barbra Streisand


    “It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.”  ―Al Pacino


    “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” ―Carol Burnett


  6. Speaker 6


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    Speaker 6:

    I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress. ―Barbra Streisand


    You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling.   ―Al Pacino


    When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged. ―Carol Burnett


  7. Speaker 7


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Round 3 - 7:00pm Pacific Time

  1. Speaker 1


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    Speaker 1:

    Another term for balloon is bad breath holder. ―Demetri Martin


    The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching. ―Dave Chappelle


    There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ―Josh Billings


  2. Speaker 2


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    Speaker 2:

    If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ―Milton Berle


    I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now. ―Bill Hicks


    People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.  ―James Acaster


  3. Speaker 3


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    Speaker 3:

    I can't prove it, but I can say it.  ―Stephen Colbert


    In the land of the skunks, he who has half a nose is king.  ―Chris Farley


    I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.  ―Jonathan Winters


  4. Speaker 4


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    Speaker 4:

    You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask. ―Samantha Bee


    If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ―Alan King


    When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.  ―Carrot Top


  5. Speaker 5


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    Speaker 5:

    I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.  ―Lucille Ball


    People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.  ―Bob Hope


    Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.  ―Jonathan Winters


  6. Speaker 6


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    Speaker 6:

    You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.  ―Flip Wilson


    There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself. ―Gilda Radner


    There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do. ―Amy Poehler


  7. Speaker 7


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IE Finals / Debate Bronze - 12:15pm Pacific Time

  1. Speaker 1


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    Speaker 1:

    When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. ―Oprah Winfrey


    I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket. ―Adam Sandler


    Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ―Roger Ebert


  2. Speaker 2


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    Speaker 2:

    After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. ―Nelson Mandela


    I've never really allowed anyone else to tell me whether I'm good or not. ―Kelsey Grammer


    You can't legislate good will - that comes through education. ―Malcolm X


  3. Speaker 3


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    Speaker 3

    I've never really allowed anyone else to tell me whether I'm good or not. ―Kelsey Grammer


    I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. ―John Belushi


    If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. ―Shelley Long


  4. Speaker 4


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    Speaker 4:

    I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. ―Bruce Springsteen


    My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. ―Michael Stipe


    Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries. ―James Dean


  5. Speaker 5


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    Speaker 5:

    People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror. ―Janet Reno


    They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. ―Steve Buscemi


    I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything! ―Nancy Cartwright


  6. Speaker 6


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    Speaker 6:

    If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful. ―John Larroquette


    Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. ―James Earl Jones


    Maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things. ―Jackson Browne


  7. Speaker 7


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    Speaker 7

    When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal. ―Josh Gad


    I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet. ―Paul Rudd


    I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that. ―Kenan Thompson