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Immigrants poured into the country from all over the world, looking for a better life for their children.

7 seconds sound clip from the Johnny Dangerously movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:05:19 in the DVD version of the movie.

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[...]

- What's going on?

- Don't worry. It'll end in a couple of minutes. It always does this when I talk about the past.

- Anyway, it was 1910.

- Times were good in America. There was plenty of everything: Jobs, security, laughs.

- America was in great shape, except for the President William Howard Taft. Was he a porker. At 310 pounds, he weighed as much as Teddy Roosevelt and half of William McKinley.

- Immigrants poured into the country from all over the world, looking for a better life for their children.

- And over 97 percent of them settled in a two-block area of New York City.

- There used to be a law called The McCoy Act of 1909 that said that immigrants who wanted citizenship had to stay out of their apartments at least 4 hours a day and walk around the streets with hats on.

- Most of the immigrants didn't find the streets paved with gold. Instead, they found hard times.

- And nobody had it tougher than my mom, Mom Kelly.

- She was kind and sweet. And she had a colorful way of putting things.

[...]

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Actors: Michael Keaton (Johnny Dangerously), Joe Piscopo (Danny Vermin), Marilu Henner (Lil Sheridan), Maureen Stapleton (Ma Kelly), Peter Boyle (Jocko Dundee), Danny DeVito (D.A. Burr)

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