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Kermit the Frog – rainbow connection

This classic song, sung by the main character of Jim Henson’s Muppets, opens the 1979 movie which features the Muppets. We hear the distinctive voice of Kermit the Frog…
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The Beach Boys – good vibrations

The song was composed and produced by Brian Wilson with lyrics by Mike Love and performed by The Beach Boys…
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Theodore Roosevelt – succeed

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
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Robert Zemeckis – forrest gump

Forrest Gump revolves around the story of his life. Gump finds himself part of and influencing some defining moments in 20th Century history…
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Henry David Thoreau – thanksgiving

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.”
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John Denver – calypso

John Denver wrote and performed Calypso as a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his ship Calypso. John Denver was a singer, song-writer, actor, activist…
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Helen Keller – sunshine

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
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Ridley Scott – gladiator

Gladiator is the story of a Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius who finds himself embroiled in aftermath of a betrayal of an ambitious emperor’s son. Through a series of…
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Franklin D. Roosevelt – tomorrow

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
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The Elton John Band – philadelphia freedom

Philadelphia freedom was written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin and was released as a single by the The Elton John Band. It reached number 1 in the US charts…
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Kool & the Gang – celebration

Celebration is a song written and performed by Kool and the Gang. Celebration appears on the album Celebrate. It held top position for two weeks on the Billboard 100 chart in 1981…
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T. S. Eliot – beginning

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
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