Round One – Lyrics (Country, HipHop, Classic Rock)
Speaker One - Round One
“its hard to love when theres so much to hate,” – Carrie Underwood
“Ain't it fun when you know that you gonna die young.” Guns N Roses
“The only course left was revolution which was understandable” – Dead Prez
Speaker Two - Round One
The more boys I meet the more I love my dog – Carrie Underwood
“the jobs don't never pay enough, So the rent always be late; can you relate?” – Dead Prez
“Living is easy with eyes closed.” John Lennon
Speaker Three - Round One
It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, Starts with goodbye, - Carrie Underwood
“Yo, this world is oh so cold, I think about my ancestors being sold, and it make me wanna break the
mold.” – Dead Prez
“I'll steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.” Rod Stewart
Speaker Four – Round One
“Wanna find some boy, rip his heart right out, First man I see, gonna take him down, It ain't the
Christian thing to do, they say, But someone, somewhere's gotta pay” – Carrie Underwood
“You can't fool all the people all of the time.” – Dead Prez
“Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man.” Kansas
Speaker Five – Round One
“Yeah, even I'm surprised how easy sweet revenge rolls off my lips” – Carrie Underwood
“Freedom aint going to come till we regulate it.” Dead Prez
“I can think for you, you’ll have to decide, whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side.” Bob Dylan
Speaker Six – Round One
“My hotel in Manhattan holds more people than our town, And what I just paid for dinner, Would be a
down payment on a house,” – Carrie Underwood
“Ghetto children your'e the spark, your'e the energy, your'e the heart” – Dead Prez
Speaker Seven – Round One
“I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa, Than hailing cabs here in New York” – Carrie Underwood
“I have a dream, too” – Dead Prez
“Don’t follow leaders, watch the parkin’ meters.” - Bob Dylan
Speaker Eight – Round One
“I wanna be inside your heaven” – Carrie Underwood
“If you feelin what I'm feelin then you hearin what I'm sayin” – Dead Prez
“Motel, money, murder, madness, lets change the mood from glad to sadness.” – Jim Morrison
Round Two
Speaker One –
“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.”
- Hobbes, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“Everyone wants to know what the future holds, but you just have to wait 'til it happens.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Speaker Two “It's either spectacular, unbelievable success, or crushing, hopeless defeat! There is no middle ground!”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
"I say you don't fully appreciate life until you risk losing it!"
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Speaker Three “That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we
are.” - Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Speaker Four “Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous
delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Speaker Five “When you're serious about having fun, it's not much fun at all!”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”
- Hobbes, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“I think our actions show what's in our hearts.”
- Hobbes, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Speaker Six “The world bores you when you're cool.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“I think people worry too much about little things. All they do is make themselves unhappy that way.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron!”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Speaker Seven “Life's a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“People pay more attention to you when they think you're up to something.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“Everybody's a slave to routine.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Speaker Eight “The problem with people is that they're only human.”
- Hobbes, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“Things don't bug you if you don't think about them.”
- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
“You should take pride in what you do, and always do the best job possible.”
- Calvin's Mom, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Elim – Ancient Quotes
Speaker One -Elim
“Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.” - Cato the Elder
“You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.” - Seneca
“Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” - Voltaire
Speaker Two – Elim
“The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.” - Cicero
“He will live ill who does not know how to die well.” - Seneca
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.” - Voltaire
Speaker Three – Elim
“We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.” - Cicero
“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” - Cato the
Elder
“History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.” - Voltaire
Speaker Four – Elim
“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.” - Cicero
“Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.” Seneca
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” - Voltaire
Speaker Five - Elim
“Life without the courage for death is slavery.” - Seneca
“To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool
than to discover who is a clever man.” - Cato the Elder
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” - Voltaire
Speaker Six - Elim
“We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.” - Cato the
Elder
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” - Seneca
“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.” - Seneca
Speaker Seven - Elim
“Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.” - Cicero
“There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.” Voltaire
“God is always on the side of the big battalions.” - Voltaire
Speaker Eight - Elim
“There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to
retribution and punishment.” - Cicero
“Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows
by endurance what it is capable of.” - Seneca
“The multitude of books is making us ignorant.” - Voltaire