Speaker 1

1. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso

2. “I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.” -Jean-Michel Basquiat
3. "When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things." -Gordon Atkinson

Speaker 2

1. “Hurt me with the truth. But never comfort me with a lie.” -Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail)

2. "In real life, I assure you: there is no such thing as algebra." -Hannah Arendt
3. "Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down." -Hector Berlioz

Speaker 3

1. "A person who trusts no one can't be trusted." -Jerome Blattner

2. “If you conceal things, they become more charged.” -Cornelia Parker
3. "We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.' -Etty Hillesum

Speaker 4

1. “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces-just good food from fresh ingredients.” -Julia Child

2. “I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.” -Marcel Duchamp
3. "Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change." -Ingrid Bengis

Speaker 5

1. “Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.” -Thomas Fuller

2. “It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.” -Sam Levenson 
3. “Your very silence shows you agree.” -Euripides

Speaker 6

1. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” -Twyla Tharp

2. "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." -Michel de Montaigne
3. "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." -Sir Arthur Conan

Speaker 7

1. “It’s more important to master the cards you’re holding than to complain about the ones your opponent was dealt.” -Grimsley

2. “An empty canvas is full.” -Robert Rauschenberg
3. "The secret of staying young is to lie about your age." -Lucille Ball

Speaker 8

1.  "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -Susan Ertz

2. "Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done." -Fred Allen
3. “That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.” -John Green

Speaker 1

1. "For every person who wants to teach, there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn much." -W. C. Sellar

2. “I don’t need a priest, I need a law degree.” -Tablo
3. “Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.” -Robin Morgan

Speaker 2

1. "After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." -Fred Thompson

2. "A motion to adjourn is always in order." -Robert Heinlein
3. “Patriarchy has no gender.” -bell hooks

Speaker 3

1. "The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget." - Mitchell Burgess

2. "Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth." -Rex Stout 
3. “Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” -Russell Lowell

Speaker 4

1. “Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.” -Anonymous 

2. "Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student." -George Iles
3. "A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?" -W. Somerset Maugham

Speaker 5

1. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”- Joan Didion

2. “Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.” -Sallust 
3. “A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.” -Benjamin H. Brewster

Speaker 6

1. “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” -Abba Eban 

2. “I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” -Jane Wagner
3.  "My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income." -Errol Flynn

Speaker 7

1. “Art is either plagiarism, or revolution.” -Paul Gauguin

2. 1. "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." -Thomas H. Huxley
3. "I think a lot of women have convinced themselves they're sad when they're actually furious." -Christina Tucker

Speaker 8

1. “The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.” -Xaviera Hollander

2. “No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write 'too much' ...No woman has ever written enough.” -bell hooks
3. “Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.” -Lee Simonson