C. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - CA, POI, DI, INFO, IMP, PRO - 2:30 p.m.
Speaker 1
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary
"Adventure is just bad planning." - Roald Amundsen
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
Speaker 2
"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir
"Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." - Ibn Battuta
Speaker 3
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - Sir John Lubbock
"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." - Hilaire Belloc
"The desire for discovery must be in our blood." - Tenzing Norgay
Speaker 4
"The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself." - William Least Heat-Moon
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd
"The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish." - Jacques Yves Cousteau
Speaker 5
"It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward." - Fridtjof Nansen
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide
Speaker 6
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." - Aldous Huxley
"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these are not the dangers that frighten me. A far greater danger is the narrowness of mind that can make men blind to the truth." - Vasco da Gama
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
Round 2 - CA, POI, DI, INFO, IMP, PRO - 4:30 p.m.
Speaker 1
"Don't bore us, get to the chorus." - Noel Gallagher
“I'm not a legend, I'm just a guy who loves to sing." - Tony Bennett
"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown." - Jim Morrison
Speaker 2
"I'm not a businessman; I'm a business, man!" - Jay-Z
"I'm not a control freak, I'm a control enthusiast." - Steven Tyler
"The most important thing is to be yourself. Unless you can be a rock star, then always be a rock star." - Kurt Cobain
Speaker 3
"To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable." - Ludwig van Beethoven
"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein
I think my music should be able to speak to you even if you've never been to a concert of classical music before. - Jennifer Higdon
Speaker 4
"Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the Earth's greenings. Now, think." - Hildegard Von Bingen
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." - Thelonious Monk
"Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. You see the headlights and the windshield wipers, but you can't see the house until you get right up to it." - Einojuhani Rautavaara
Speaker 5
"The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play." - Richard Strauss
"I think if you're going to sing country, you have to live country." - Kacey Musgraves
"My mother always told me that even if you're unhappy, you should try to pretend that you're happy. That's the best way to make other people happy.” - Etta James
Speaker 6
"If you find a tune and it's got something to do with you, you don't have to evolve anything. You just feel it, and when you sing it other people can feel something too.” - Billie Holliday
"The blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad." - Lonnie Johnson
"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.” - Madonna
Round 3 - CA, POI, DI, INFO, IMP, PRO - 9:00 a.m.
Speaker 1
"With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm just fat and 60.” - Jack Nicholson
"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.” - Clint Eastwood
"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.” - James Cameron
Speaker 2
"Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” - Bong Joon-Ho
"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” - Alfred Hitchcock
"I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels.” - Julianne Moore
Speaker 3
"The work of justice is to open ourselves to the pain of others.” - Ava DuVernay
"Writing is rewriting.” - Robert Towne
"Television is chewing gum for the eyes.” - Paddy Chayefsky
Speaker 4
"I became an artist—and thank God I did—because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.” - Viola Davis
"I'm so happy, I'm going to have to go and lie down." - Olivia Colman
"A woman in a man's world has to be twice as good as any of the men to be thought half as good. Luckily, it isn't difficult.” - Lauren Bacall
Speaker 5
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter was worth it.” - Joseph L. Mankiwiecz
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” - Orson Welles
"I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and often tyrannical... I suppose that's why I've been so successful.” - Bette Davis
Speaker 6
"Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.” - Kerry Washington
"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength to the surface. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things.” - Isabelle Allende
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” - Jimmy Stewart
Medal Round-CA, POI, DI, INFO, IMP, PRO - 1:30 pm.
Speaker 1
Words should be weighed, not counted. - Yiddish Proverb
Do good and throw it in the sea. - Arab Proverb
A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning. - Kenyan Proverb
Speaker 2
The night rinses what the day has soaped. - Swiss Proverb
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. - Welsh Proverb
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. - French Proverb
Speaker 3
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. - Russian Proverb
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. - Spanish Proverb
A fault confessed is half redressed. - Zulu Proverb
Speaker 4
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you. - New Zealand Proverb
If you go to a donkey’s house, don’t talk about ears. - Jamaican Proverb
"In the planting season, visitors come singly, and in harvest time they come in crowds.” - Australian Proverb
Speaker 5
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by
a sheep. - Arab Proverb
The church is near, but the way is icy. The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully. - Ukrainian Proverb
Speaker 6
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. - Navajo Proverb
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare - Japanese Proverb
Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors. - Jewish Proverb