The trouble with the world is, nobody gives a hoot about his neighbor. That's why everybody in town is sore and cranky with each other.

8 seconds sound clip from the Meet John Doe (1941) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:59:58 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- All right. Give me a chance. Come right in.

- My name's Bert Hansen, Mr. Doe.

- I'm head soda-jerker at Schwabacher's drugstore.

- Well, sir... me and my wife, we heard your broadcast and we got quite a bang out of it. Especially my wife.

- Kept me up half the night saying: That man's right, honey.

- The trouble with the world is, nobody gives a hoot about his neighbor. That's why everybody in town is sore and cranky with each other.

- I said: That's fine, but how's a guy gonna go around lovin' the kind of neighbors we got?

- Old Sourpuss, for instance. Sourpuss Smithers is a guy, lives alone next door to us.

- He's a cranky old man who runs the second hand furniture store.

- We haven't spoken to him for years.

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