Sheila C. Johnson, 1/27/12

Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Filmmaker

My most cherished takeaway from Sundance this year is something I hadn't anticipated. I was joined at the festival by my 22 year-old son Brett, a designer who works in New York. Seeing Sundance through his eyes gave new meaning to the experience for me.

Steven Weber, 1/27/12

Actor, wise-ass

The stream of regularly refuted garbage churned up in the AEI think tanks and Fox newsrooms for confusion's sake is spewed everyday into our culture and subsequently, Twitter. How difficult is it to keep your head straight when you're paranoid and threatened? Oh, very.

Stacy Keach, 1/26/12

Actor

He had a gargantuan talent. As a young actor, his performances in Waiting For Godot, Inadmissible Evidence, and Hamlet, were inspirational.

Pat Mitchell, 1/26/12

President & CEO, The Paley Center for Media

If you only pay attention to the press coverage and/or tweets from Sundance this year, you might think it is all about celebrity sightings, but in fact, there is some powerful paradigm shifting going on as well.

Carrie White, 1/26/12

Hollywood hairdresser; author, 'Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life'

In my few decades of doing celebrity hair, I have done many who were nominated for Oscars and a handful who won. There was one time, though, that I was actually backstage, and it turned out to be one very eventful night.

Malcolm Harris, 1/24/12

Curator of Cool; Founder of One Dress Project

After reading our vows, we were officially pronounced married by the State of New York. When I heard these words, I began to sob like an 8-year-old.

Mandy Moore, 1/26/12

Singer-songwriter, actress and PSI Ambassador

I am really hoping that the leaders of the world's most powerful companies walk away from Davos understanding the economic importance of global health. And that they make improving global health part of their business plans.

Taryn Haight, 1/25/12

Music Supervisor, Freelance Music Writer

The past year has been quite the journey for Joy Williams and John Paul White -- a pair that only connected a few short years ago, during a music writing job in 2008.

Mariska Hargitay, 1/25/12

Actress

We as a society must build on this achievement and take further steps to acknowledge that sexual violence affects men and boys. We must commit ourselves to engaging men in the movement to address, prevent and, one day, end all sexual violence.

Meghan O'Keefe, 1/25/12

Comedian and writer

Right now there are numerous intelligent women across the land who are presently in crisis mode. It's all due to an actor whom you may or may not be aware of named Benedict Cumberbatch.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, 1/25/12

Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN

I love the game of football. I went to a Big Ten school, and my wife and I still return to our alma mater for games. But the game can and should be safer.

Zorianna Kit, 1/25/12

www.zoriannakit.tv

The Sundance Film Festival is not all about movies. Many brands come together in the various gifting suites around Park City, UT in the hopes of getting their products in the hands of celebrities to drum up publicity and business.

Noel Gallagher, 1/25/12

Singer/Songwriter; Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

It's a night that will live long in the memory for another reason. That being it was the night I got my first bra thrown onstage! I was so proud, and the young lady should be too, if you know what I mean?

Ted Danson and Andrew Sharpless, 1/25/12

Leatherback sea turtles migrate an astonishing 6,000 miles across the Pacific to feed on jellyfish in the waters off the U.S. West Coast. After such a long journey, wouldn't you want somewhere safe to rest?

Nathaniel Frank, 1/25/12

Author, 'Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America'

The best analogy for the question of choice and sexuality is not race or gender but religion. Among defenders of Cynthia Nixon's "choice" remarks are those who say that, just as Americans choose their religion, why can't we choose our sexual orientation?

Rick Schwartz, 1/25/12

Movie producer, philately enthusiast, life coach

With all the upcoming fanfare over this week's Academy Awards nominations, it might be worth noting that most of these talented, wonderful people will have one thing in common in roughly four weeks. They'll all be losers.

Cathy Renna, 1/25/12

Nationally recognized media relations expert and leader within the LGBT community

We should be thanking Cynthia Nixon for giving us an opportunity to talk about sexual orientation for what is really is, a complex human trait that is not fully understood, and not a simple gay/straight binary but a spectrum of behavior and identities.