6 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:43:50.319 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Cue announcer.
- The UBS Evening News with Howard Beale.
- Take 2, cue Howard.
- Last night, I was awakened from a fitful sleep shortly after 2:00 in the morning by a shrill, sibilant, faceless voice.
- I couldn't make it out at first in the dark bedroom and I said, I'm sorry, you will have to talk a little louder.
- What do you want me to do?
- Nothing.
- And the voice said to me, I want you to tell the people the truth. Not an easy thing to do because the people don't want to know the truth. And I said, You're kidding. What the hell should I know about the truth?
- But the voice said to me, Don't worry about the truth. I will put the words in your mouth.
- And I said, What's this, the Burning Bush? For God's sake, I'm not Moses. And the voice said to me, And I'm not God. What has that got to do with it?
- And the voice said to me: We're not talking about eternal truth or absolute truth or ultimate truth. We're talking about impermanent, transient, human truth.
- I don't expect you people to be capable of truth, but goddammit, at least you're capable of self-preservation.
- And I said, Why me? And the voice said, Because you're on television, dummy.
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