5 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:44:12.226 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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.
- You have 40 million Americans listening to you and after this show, you could have 50 million.
- For Pete's sake, I'm not asking you to walk the land in sackcloth and ashes preaching the Armageddon. You're on TV, man.
- So I thought about it for a moment and then I said, Okay.
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