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Ask difficult questions that help you and others face reality. Be gentle and kind, but don’t keep questions inside merely because they are hard to express or answer.

I have often dreamed of a far off place

Where a hero's welcome would be waiting for me

Where the crowds would cheer, when they see my face

And a voice keeps saying this is where I'm meant to be

I'll be there someday, I can go the distance

I will find my way if I can be strong

I know every mile would be worth my while

When I go the distance, I'll be right where I belong

Down an unknown road to embrace my fate

Though that road may wander, it will lead me to you

And a thousand years would be worth the wait

It might take a lifetime but somehow I'll see it through

And I won't look back, I can go the distance

And I'll stay on track, no I won't accept defeat

It's an uphill slope

But I won't loose hope, 'till I go the distance

And my journey is complete, oh yeah

But to look beyond the glory is the hardest part

For a hero's strength is measured by his heart, oh

Like a shooting star, I will go the distance

I will search the world, I will face its harms

I don't care how far, I can go the distance

'Till I find my hero's welcome waiting in your arms

I will search the world, I will face its harms

'Till I find my hero's welcome waiting in your arms

Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, in pursuit of rising to the top of his elite music conservatory. Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), an instructor known for his terrifying teaching methods, discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into the top jazz ensemble, forever changing the young man's life. But Andrew's passion to achieve perfection quickly spirals into obsession, as his ruthless teacher pushes him to the brink of his ability and his sanity.

I am a dream, just beginning

Truth is I prayed when you'd open my eyes,

And you revealed something to me,

Suddenly I am no longer confined

My life ain't defined by limits

I don't need no permission to live it

I'm a break through the door til I get in

Everything that I got I'm a give it

100 Percent and I ain't stopping til I reach the finish

I'm a believer, not just a dreamer

I'm givin everything I got

I'm a go getter

100 Percenter

Undoubtedly I can reach the top

And I ain't gonna let nothing discourage or dissuade me

Cause I'm walking out of here a champion either way, babe

I am givin it 100 Percent

So go on put your ones up

If you're putting in a hundred put your ones up, ones up

If you know that this is something, put your ones up, ones up

If you really comprehend this, put your ones up, ones up

If you're walking into victory keep on shining

One hundred percent

You can only do it if you do it like I did

Cause suffering ain't easy

But if you can turn your wounds into living proof

That you've survived the fight and you no longer defined

My life ain't defined by limits

I don't need no permission to live it

I'm a break thru the door til I get in

Everything that I got Ima give it

100 Percent and I ain't stopping til I reach the finish

I'm a believer not just a dreamer

I'm givin everything I got

I'm a go getter

100 Percenter

Undoubtedly I can reach the top

And I ain't gonna let nothing discourage or dissuade me

(Nothing can discourage me)

Cause I'm walking out of here a champion either way babe (Eh)

I am givin it 100 Percent

So go on put your ones up

If you're putting in a hundred put your ones up, ones up (Put your ones up)

If you know that this is something, put your ones up, ones up (Everybody)

If you really comprehend this, put your ones up, ones up (Put your ones up)

If you're walking into victory keep on shining (One hundred)

One hundred percent

Don't you ever (stop)

Be discouraged (stop)

Let nobody take your courage (stop)

If you gonna pray don't worry (stop)

If ya gonna wait don't pray (stop)

You just keep the faith and listen to me

If you're putting in a hundred put your ones up, ones up (Put your ones up, hey)

If you know that this is something, put your ones up, ones up (If you know you were)

If you really comprehend this, put your ones up, ones up (If you ever were, hope for something, yeah)

If you're walking into victory keep on shining

One hundred percent

I'm a believer not just a dreamer

I'm givin everything I got

I'm a go getter

100 Percenter

Undoubtedly I can reach the top

And I ain't gonna let nothing discourage or dissuade me

(Percent I will share with you)

Cause I'm walking out of here a champion either way babe (Either way)

I've gotta give 100 Percent

So go on put your ones up

If you're putting in a hundred put your ones up, ones up

If you know that this is something, put your ones up, ones up

If you really comprehend this feel, put your ones up, ones up

If you're walking into victory keep on shining

One hundred percent

Pregnant by her own father for the second time, 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) can neither read nor write and suffers constant abuse at the hands of her vicious mother (Mo'Nique). Precious instinctively sees a chance to turn her life around when she is offered the opportunity to transfer to an alternative school. Under the patient, firm guidance of her new teacher, Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins the journey from oppression to self-determination.

There's a moment

In your bones when

When the fire takes over

Blood is running

Heart is pumping

As the battle gets closer

Ooh, they can say what they want now

Ooh, 'cause we'll be screaming out

We can be heroes everywhere we go

We can have all that we ever want

Swinging like Ali, knocking out bodies

Standing on top like a champion

Keep your silver, give me that gold

You'll remember when I say

We can be heroes everywhere we go

Keeping us down is impossible

'Cause we're unstoppable

Oh woah, we're unstoppable

Oh woah, we're unstoppable

Every spotlight

Every sound byte

Everybody who gave up

Is just the fuel for

Wanting it more

Than anybody against us

Ooh, they can say what they want now

Ooh, 'cause we'll be screaming out

We can be heroes everywhere we go

We can have all that we ever want

Swinging like Ali, knocking out bodies

Standing on top like a champion

Keep your silver, give me that gold

You'll remember when I say

We can be heroes everywhere we go

Keeping us down is impossible

'Cause we're unstoppable

Oh woah, we're unstoppable

Oh woah, we're unstoppable

Ooh, they can say what they want now

Ooh, 'cause we'll be screaming out

We can be heroes everywhere we go

We can have all that we ever want

Swinging like Ali, knocking out bodies

Standing on top like a champion

Keep your silver, give me that gold

You'll remember when I say

We can be heroes everywhere we go

Keeping us down is impossible

We're unstoppable

Oh woah, we're unstoppable

Oh woah, we're unstoppable

Oh woah, we're unstoppable

Oh woah, we're unstoppable

Oh woah, we're unstoppable

We're unstoppable

Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage. Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their efforts culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

William Wallace is the medieval Scottish patriot who is spurred into revolt against the English when the love of his life is slaughtered. Leading his army into battles that become a war, his advance into England threatens King Edward I's throne before he is captured and executed, but not before becoming a symbol for a free Scotland.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding. The musician may sing to you of the rhythm, which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear that arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it. And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither. For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man. And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

An extraordinary display of numerous strengths but above all the leaderships and courage to go against the current and emancipate the slaves despite continuing unrest on the battlefield and strife within his own ranks.