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“Who has the better moves, Carlton or Cecil?” Deseret News, comparing President Cecil O. Samuelson’s lip-synching performance in the final basketball season promotional video to the dance moves of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s Carlton Banks.

“Go Kate!” Facebook post by Beyoncè when she learned that Olympic luger Kate Hansen (’17) dances her prerace warm-up to the pop star’s tunes.

“Don’t limit yourself before you even get started. Give yourself permission to think big.” Andrea Brantzeg Thomas (MBA ’93), senior vice president of sustainability for Walmart, in a university forum address.

“Chicago has been Jimmered.”Tweet from Jody Genessy,Deseret News sports writer, after Jimmer Fredette (’11) scored less than a minute into his debut for the Chicago Bulls.

“Then two days later Bruce Springsteen shows up.” 2007 Nobel Prize winner Mario Capecchi in the BYU Izatt-Christensen lecture, referring to his reception in Stockholm, Sweden, where he signed autographs for thousands of people—then the rock star came.