You're not gonna get something like this dumped in your lap for the rest of your days and you can't just piss it away.

— Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway)

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4 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:25:51.408 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- I think we should put Beale back on the air tonight and keep him on.

- Did you see the news this morning? Did you see the Times? We've got press coverage on this you couldn't buy for a million dollars.

- That dumb show jumped five rating points in one night.

- Tonight's show has gotta be at least 15.

- We just increased our audience by 20 or 30 million people in one night.

- You're not gonna get something like this dumped in your lap for the rest of your days and you can't just piss it away.

- Howard Beale went up there last night and said what every American feels: that he's tired of all the bullshit. He's articulating the popular rage.

- I want that show, Frank. I can turn that show into the biggest smash on television.

- What do you mean you want that show? It's a news show. It's not your department.

- I see Howard Beale as a latter-day prophet. A magnificent, messianic figure inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times. A strip Savonarola, Monday through Friday that I tell you, Frank, could just go through the roof...

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