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Embrace Your Inner Light
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Let yourself glow
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Debate Over Legality of Local Ordinance
Senator Billboard Rawkins
You've been violating the law, here.
Finian McLonergan
Since when?
Senator Billboard Rawkins
This afternoon. I just finished drafting this. Local ordinance number 7428: be it known that in the county of Rainbow Valley, it is a felony for members of the Caucasian and Negro races...
[reading]
Finian McLonergan
But it seems to me that this law could not be a legal law...
Senator Billboard Rawkins
Of course it's legal! I don't know where you immigrants get these radical, foreign ideas!
Sharon McLonergan
From a wee book the immigration officer handed us. It's called The United States Constitution.
Finian McLonergan
Haven't you read it?
Senator Billboard Rawkins
I don't have time to read it, I'm too busy defending it!
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Reflection on Human Folly
Og
What fools these mortals be!
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Senator Rawkins' Views on Immigrants
Senator Billboard Rawkins
My family's been having nothing but trouble with immigrants ever since they come to this country!
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A Conversation About Appearance and Identity
Senator Billboard Rawkins
I can't show my face.
Og
What's wrong with your face?
Senator Billboard Rawkins
Are you blind, boy? I'm black!
Og
I think it's very becoming.
Senator Billboard Rawkins
It is NOT! I'm a white man, dammit! A white man! At least I was, up until a couple of days ago.
Og
Well, that's a coincidence! I was green a couple of weeks ago! Don't you find the occasional change of color interesting?
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Cultural Differences Between America and Ireland
Finian McLonergan
What do you think makes America different from Ireland?
Sharon McLonergan
It has more Irishmen?
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Dispute Over Ownership of Gold
Sharon McLonergan
It's gold!
[looking in Finian's bag]
Finian McLonergan
Aye, it's a pot of gold.
Sharon McLonergan
And you stole it!
Finian McLonergan
I did not steal it! I only borrowed.
Sharon McLonergan
Who did you borrow it from?
Finian McLonergan
Why do you want to know?
Sharon McLonergan
So we can lend it right back to him, that's why!
Finian McLonergan
That's impossible! He's not mortal.
Sharon McLonergan
You killed him!
Finian McLonergan
Of course not! He never was mortal. He's a leprechaun.
Sharon McLonergan
A leprechaun?
Finian McLonergan
Of course! Who else would have gold in Ireland?
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Wealth and Poverty in America
Finian McLonergan
America is full of millionaires.
Sharon McLonergan
But Father, are there no ill clad or ill housed in America?
Finian McLonergan
Aye, but they're the best ill clad and the best ill housed in the world.
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The Legend of the Rainbow's Promise
Woody Mahoney
How'd you get so pretty? And so rich?
Sharon McLonergan
Well, you see, in Glocca Morra, where we come from, there's an old legend, and it says: You'll never grow old and you'll never grow poor, if you look to the rainbow, beyond the next moor.
Woody Mahoney
That's a lovely legend.
Sharon McLonergan
Aye.
Woody Mahoney
I wonder who thought it up.
Sharon McLonergan
My father: Finian McLonnergan.
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Questioning Reality and Yearning for Truth
Finian McLonergan
How dare you come back here! Didn't I tell you you were an optical delusion?
Og
I was ready to believe you yesterday but not today. Today I have proof!
Finian McLonergan
What proof?
Og
Does an optical illusion feel such a hungry yearning burning inside of him? Does an optical illusion feel the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom in the roaring traffic's boom in his lonely room?
Finian McLonergan
Are you flying high and wide on a magic carpet ride full of butterflies inside?
Og
Aye, and what's worse, smoke keeps coming out of me eyes.
Finian McLonergan
You go round like an elevator lost in the tide?
Og
That's the feeling! Day and night, night and day!
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Conflicted Feelings About Love and Proximity
Og
When I'm not near the girl I love/ I love the girl I'm near!
[singing]
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Defense of Tradition Against Radicalism
Senator Billboard Rawkins
Gentlemen, the festering tides of radicalism are upon us. But before I yield up our glorious South -and her sister commonwealth, the U.S. of A - I will lay down my life. I will do more - I will filibuster. Back, you crackpots! Forward, America! Forward to the hallowed principles of our forefathers. Forward to the sweet tranquility of the status quo. Forward... to yesterday!
[dictating a speech to Buzz]
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Join the Fun and Follow the Rainbow
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If all you want out of a movie is a great, big, wonderful time - just follow the rainbow - whistle the songs - and join in the fun.
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Advice Against Superstition
Finian McLonergan
Don't be superstitious, it's bad luck.
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The Significance of Green in Ireland
Finian McLonergan
Green is the color of the shamrocks /and the grass on Blarney hill / Oh, the darlin green of Ireland /and the good old dollar bill.
[singing]
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Existence and Imagination in Conflict
Finian McLonergan
Leprechaun, I've come to a decision! I deny your existence! You're only a figment of me imagination!
Og
I am?
Finian McLonergan
And I'll prove it to myself by walking right through you! Step aside! There, you see?
[He walks toward Og; Og jumps out of the way]
Og
Oh, this is dreadful! I don't exist.
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A Blight Falls Over Ireland
Finian McLonergan
How are things in Glocca Morra?
Og
Oh, alas, alack, and willy-wally! I weep for Ireland.
Finian McLonergan
Why, what's happened?
Og
A blight has fallen over Ireland!
Finian McLonergan
The British are back?
Og
Never have I seen such a curse befall a folk in all me four hundrend and fifty... nine years! Poor Ireland!
Finian McLonergan
Poor Ireland!
Og
Suffering Ireland! The native land!
Finian McLonergan
Me native land! A fine lot of faery folk you are! You and your associates letting all this happen! Why don't you wish it away?
Og
We've lost the power!
Finian McLonergan
You've lost the power to make wishes? What has Ireland to live for now! Answer me that!
Og
Doom and gloom! DOOOOOOOOM AND GLOOOOOOOOM!
Finian McLonergan
Who's the author of this foul outrage?
Og
A monster, McLonnergan!
Finian McLonergan
A monster? You mean the old flame-breathing type with the head of a dragon?
Og
Oh, no, this is a tiny wee monster, about... your size.
Finian McLonergan
Lead me to him! Who is this monster?
Og
You'll excuse me for pointing, Mr. McLonnergan... but it's you.
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