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"If you don't like your fate, change it. You are your own master, there are no shackles on you. So don't expect any pity or understanding from this humble palace slave! --"Enchantment Passing Through""
"I know expectations are wild and almost beyond my fullfillment, but they won't hear a word of a doubt or see signs of a weakness. My nigh on impossible duty is clear: If I can rekindle my ancestor's dreams, It's enough. -- "Dance of the Robe""
"[with Radames] We all lead such elaborate lives, we don't know who's words are true. Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives: hard to know who's loving who. -- "Elaborate Lives"."
"Nubia will never die! Whether we are enslaved or whether we are far from our native soil, Nubia lives in our hearts. And therefore, it lives."
"I'm here to tell you we can never meet again. Simple really, isn't it? A word or two and then a lifetime of not knowing where, or how, or why, or when you'll think of me, or speak of me, and wonder what befell that someone you once loved so long ago so well. -- "Written in the Stars""
"Is this how the Gods reward the faithful through the ages? Forcing us to prove that all the hardest things we've done are easy. -- "Easy as Life""
"You can't escape your genes -- "Like Father, Like Son""
"You're not the master of your fate -- "Like Father, Like Son""
"Once we rid him of this plight, once that harlot's out of sight, then I think he'll see the light. He won't walk back to daddy, he will run! -- "Like Father, Like Son""
"Eygpt needs me!"
"Soon our monarch will have filled a tomb, just like his fathers did -- "Another Pyramid""
"Put 5,000 slaves on standby, build another Pyramid -- "Another Pyramid""
"He's in love, but he's not the only one to be changed... --"Not Me""
"Princess Amneris - first in beauty, wisdom...and accessories"
"For years I've been stealing from the palace. I thought, one day, I could get back to Nubia, but if I can send my king home..."
"I would not have thought it possible that these Egyptians could give me one more reason to hate them!"
"I knew you would survive, that I had trained my daughter well. At least I would not let myself believe anything else (after being reunited with Aida)"
"We will all be going home, Mereb"
"FREDERIC: Yes, I have done my best for you. And why? It was my duty under my indentures, and I am the slave of duty."
"MABEL: Poor wandering ones!"
"SERGEANT: To gain a brief advantage you've contrived,"
"KING: With base deceit"
"MABEL: Sergeant, approach! Young Frederic was to have led you to death and glory."
"DUET - MABEL and FREDERIC: Stay, Fred'ric, stay!"
"FREDERIC: Ought I to tell you? No, no, I cannot do it; and yet, as one of your band--"
"FREDERIC: You don't mean to say you are going to hold me to that?"
"SONG: Go, ye heroes, go to glory"
"GENERAL: Why do I sit here? To escape from the pirates' clutches, I described myself as an orphan; and, heaven help me, I am no orphan! I come here to humble myself before the tombs of my ancestors, and to implore their pardon for having brought dishonour on the family escutcheon."
"CHORUS: Oh, dry the glistening tear That dews that martial cheek; Thy loving children hear, In them thy comfort seek. With sympathetic care Their arms around thee creep, For oh, they cannot bear To see their father weep!"
"HYMN — KING & CHORUS"
"GENERAL: But wait a bit. I object to pirates as sons-in-law."
"GENERAL: And now that I've introduced myself, I should like to have some idea of what's going on."
"SONG — MAJOR-GENERAL: I am the very model of a modern Major-General"
"SONG- MABEL:"
"SONG — FREDERIC: Oh, is there not one maiden breast"
"FREDERIC: Oh, false one, you have deceived me!"
"FREDERIC: Ruth, tell me candidly and without reserve: compared with other women, how are you?"
"KING: There are the remains of a good woman about Ruth."
"SONG - PIRATE KING: Oh better far to live and die"
"SAMUEL: But, hang it all! you wouldn't have us absolutely merciless?"
"KING: Well, Frederic, if you conscientiously feel that it is your duty to destroy us, we cannot blame you for acting on that conviction. Always act in accordance with the dictates of your conscience, my boy, and chance the consequences."