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Of all the characters
in all the Disney films
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the one I love the most
is Jiminy Cricket from "Pinnochio."
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My favorite scene in the movie
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is when the blue fairy
is saying to Pinnochio,
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"Always let your conscience
be your guide."
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Pinnochio asks, "What are conscience?"
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and Jiminy Cricket is scandalized
by the question: "What are conscience!"
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"What are conscience!
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Conscience is that still small voice
that people won't listen to,
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that's just the trouble
with the world today."
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I love the way Jiminy Cricket
is always there
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with a nerdy, ethical thing
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just as Pinnochio's coming up
with some kind of good plan.
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I think of him as speaking
truth to puppet.
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I always wondered what it was
about Jiminy Cricket
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that made me love him so much
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and one day it hit me.
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It was because he sounds
like my grandfather.
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My grandfather was a very sweet
and cuddly man
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and I loved him to the moon and back.
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But I shared him with the big, wide world.
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His name was Roy O'Disney,
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and together with his younger
brother Walt Disney,
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he came from a very humble
upbringing in Kansas
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and started and ran one of the most
iconic businesses in the world.
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Two things I remember the best
about going to Disneyland
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with my grandfather.
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The first thing was he always
gave me a stern warning
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that if I ever sassed
anybody who worked there
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I was in deep doo-doo when we got home.
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He said these people work really hard --
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harder than you can imagine,
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and they deserve your respect.
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The other is that he never
walked by a piece of garbage
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inside of Disneyland
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or anywhere else,
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where he didn't bend over to pick it up.
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He said no one's too good
to pick up a piece of garbage.
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In grandpa's day,
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a job at Disneyland was not a gig.
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A person could expect to own a home,
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raise a family,
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access decent health care,
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retire in some security without worrying,
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on just what he earned there at the park.
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Mind you, grandpa fought the unions
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and he fought them hard.
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He said he didn't like to be forced
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to do something he wanted
to do voluntarily.
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That was [rank] paternalism of course
and maybe a tiny bit of BS.
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He wasn't an angel,
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and everyone wasn't well
and fairly treated across the company,
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something that's well-known
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