- Parents working really hard on things and then the kids don't appreciate it enough
- The drop in the Indiana Jones theme song (sidenote: I don't think it's called a drop?)
- The Slavers March from Temple of Doom
- "Do you play the balalaika"//all of Zhivago
- When you're reading a book and you realize how far you've come with the character and how much they grew up since the first chapter
- When E.T. starts flying
- In Jurassic Park, when Dr. Whatever and Laura Dern first see dinosaurs and they're extremely pumped to see their life's work in front of them walking around and pooping and then the music kicks in
- Drumbeats...anywhere, anytime
- School bands, specifically when the drums kick in
- The opening scene of Manhattan
- Basically any symphony
- The Protestant Reformation, specifically in reference to the printing press
- The prospect of graduation
- Bhangra performances because I get really excited and then I start crying
- Elizabeth I kicking ass after her mom died on her account, v. cool
- Any part in Lawrence of Arabia when the grand sweep of the desert matches the sweep of the music
- The theme from A Little Romance
- The 30 Rock finale
- Thinking about how Paul Simon sang The Boxer at the post-9/11 episode of SNL
- The Boxer
- When it's raining and I'm in a car listening to Bruce Springsteen, thinking about daughters
- When people are really happy, like the Love Wins snapchat story
- Actually, also that Google ad for "it gets better"
- Princess Kaguya
- the John Williams Olympic theme
- Any humanities class lecture with a sweeping overriding theme -- if delivered excellently
- The theme from the 2003 (?) Peter Pan that they used in Disney commercials and for fireworks
- Disneyland fireworks
- "Being Alive" from Company
- the end of Hair
- the theme from How the West Was Won
- New Year's countdowns
- When large crowds of people are all chanting something (protests, holidays, etc. except for sports that is boring and dumb)
- Auld Lang Syne
- the beginning of Up
- the end of Toy Story 3
- all of Wall-E, with an emphasis on the beginning
- the Bing Bong stuff in Inside Out
- the cutesy French music and shots of Paris in Ratatouille
- the Jessie song in Toy Story 2
- the movie Cars, the one time I saw it
- Monsters Inc. and also Monsters University
- most commercials
- Khaled Hosseini
- the end of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- CAMELOT (sure to induce gross and weird sobbing under hotel beds in Santa Fe)
- the death of Bobby Kennedy
- the Main Street Electrical Parade theme
- Tchaikovsky
- ballet dancers
- hardworking immigrants who love their children
- parents, in general
- The West Wing
- Rappers who love their kids and communities
- Movie montages
- All montages
- Democracy in action
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