C. Championship Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - - NFA LD @ 10:45
Speaker 1
- “It doesn't take a crystal ball to see a cowboy always finds a way to leave.” -Ella Langley, Choosin’ Texas
- “So, baby, let's get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” -Olivia Dean, Man I Need
- “Day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” -Alex Warren, Ordinary
Speaker 2
- “I thought my house was haunted. I used to live with ghosts.” -Taylor Swift, Opalite
- “Put some spirit in it, put your heart into it, that's all I need.” -Bruno Mars, I Just Might
- “I’m done hidin’. Now I’m shinin’, like I’m born to be.” -Huntrix, Golden
Speaker 3
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“Ophelia lived in fantasy.” -Taylor Swift, Ophelia
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“The devil in your eyes won’t deny the lies.” -Sombr, Back to Friends
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“I know it’s getting cold out, but it’s not frozen.” -Kehlani, Folded
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Speaker 4
- “Where you are is where I belong.” -Luke Combs, Be By You
- “All those years I put in for the American Dream.” PinkPantheress & Zara Larsson, Stateside
- “Where the hell is my husband?” -RAYE, Where is My Husband!
Speaker 5
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“I wave goodbye to the end of beginning.” -Djo, End of Beginning
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“I know you like it when I tell you what you want.” -Justin Bieber, Yukon
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“Yeah, they only shoot the birds who cannot sing.” -Noah Kahan, The Great Divide
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Speaker 6
- “Starved ‘cause his words don’t have a meaning.” -Sienna Spiro, Die on This Hill
- “Go forth, ask questions later.” -Harry Styles, Aperture
- “Forced to know on Heaven’s door, cause mine ain’t workin’ anymore.” -Jelly Roll & Shaboozey, Amen
Speaker 7
- “Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” -Tame Impala, Dracula
- “Ain’t this supposed to be painless? Then why am I so anxious?” -Brent Faiyaz, Butterflies
- “I’m not her, and she’s not me, and you’re not mine.” -Tyla, Chanel
Round 2 - 1:00 - NFA LD @ 1:30
Speaker 1
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“I had wings once, and they were strong. But they were stolen from me.” -Maleficent
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“I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you…stranger.” -The Joker
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“If only you knew the power of the dark side.” -Darth Vader
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Speaker 2
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“You’re in my world now, not your world.” -Dr. Facilier
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“There’s no taming this tiger.” -Agatha Harkness
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“It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.” -T-800
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Speaker 3
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“The world is dark, and selfish, and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it!” -Mother Gothel
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“The hardest choices require the strongest wills.” -Thanos
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“People always make fun ‘cause of the way I look.” -Pennywise
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Speaker 4
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“Name’s Hades, Lord of the dead. Hi, how ya doin’?” -Hades
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“Strong enough to have it all…too weak to take it!” -Green Goblin
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“The more people you love, the weaker you are.” -Cersei Lannister
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Speaker 5
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“You can’t get something for nothing, you know.” -Ursula
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“Do you know the oldest lie in America, Senator? It’s that power can be innocent.” -Lex Luthor
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“I don’t care who you are. I don’t care how you feel.” -Regina George
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Speaker 6
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“You’d be surprised what you can live through.” -Jafar
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“Nice guys like you shouldn’t have bad days.” -Harley Quinn
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“You can’t begin to imagine the life you denied yourself.” -The Borg Queen
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Speaker 7
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“I want to make art. And I want to make trouble.” -Cruela de Vil
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“You will bow to me, or you will die.” -Doctor Doom
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“I think my monster encourages your monster, right?” -Villanelle
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Round 3 - 1:15 - NFA LD @ 1:45
Speaker 1
- “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” -Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist
- “I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.” -Susan B. Anthony
- “If I’m going to be a vegetable, I’m going to be an artichoke: prickly on the outside, with a big heart in the middle.” -Ed Roberts
Speaker 2
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“If you want something, you better make some noise.” -Malcolm X
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“By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.” -Laverne Cox
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“Hope is an interesting thing: the darker the world gets around you, the brighter it shines.” -Jane Goodall
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Speaker 3
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“No movement is possible without hope.” -Angela Davis
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“If I do a good job, people won’t care if I am green or have three heads.” -Harvey Milk
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“How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” -Greta Thunberg
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Speaker 4
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“Speak up, speak out, get in the way.” -John Lewis
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“If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?” -Malala Yousafzai
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“And with that rage we ripped a hole in the status quo.” -Judith Heumann
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Speaker 5
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“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live.” -Cesar Chavez
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“Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned.” -Sylvia Rivera
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“You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself.” -Wangari Maathai
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Speaker 6
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“The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads.” -Dolores Huerta
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“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” -Marsha P. Johnson
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“We should not believe that our lives are lived in a linear fashion.” -Winona LaDuke
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Speaker 7
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“I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser.” -Mother Jones
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“I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That is the beauty of the internet age.” -Ai Weiwei
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“Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job.” -Emma Gonzalez
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Finals - 5:30 / Elim 1 (NFA-LD) 6:00
Speaker 1
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“A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.” -Tom Hanks (attended Chabot College)
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“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.” -Morgan Freeman (attended LA City College)
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“I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life.” -Annette Bening (attended San Diego Mesa College)
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Speaker 2
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“So much of life is what you roll and where you land.” -Mark Hamill (attended LA City College)
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“It’s almost a preordained destiny that you’re going to run into this wall–that your very success will become your nemesis.” -Bruce FaBrizio (attended Mt. San Antonio College)
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“It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.” -Teri Hatcher (attended De Anza College)
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Speaker 3
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“I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.” -Dana Carvey (attended College of San Mateo)
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“Good luck has its storms.” -George Lucas (attended Modesto Junior College)
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“Isn’t hate merely the result of wounded love?” -Amy Tan (attended San Jose City College)
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Speaker 4
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“Honor the hands that harvest your crops.” -Dolores Huerta (attended San Joaquin Delta College)
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“I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” -Steve Jobs (attended De Anza College)
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“One of the good things I learned here is that mistakes are part of the process to mission success.” -Adriana Ocampo (attended Pasadena City College)
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Speaker 5
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Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy.” -Florence Hyman (attended El Camino College)
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“Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something.” -Earnest Gaines (attended Solano Community College)
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“To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to.” -Octavia Butler (attended Pasadena City College)
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Speaker 6
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“No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.” -Jenni Rivera (attended Long Beach City College)
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“No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.” -Gabrielle Union (attended Cuesta College)
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“A lot of people said I should retire, but I stuck with it.” -Felix Sanchez (San Diego Mesa College)
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