14 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:06:06.304 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- So you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a goddamned amusement park.
- Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
- So if you want the truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves. Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth.
- But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer in Archie Bunker's house.
- And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry just look at your watch, at the end of the hour he's gonna win!
- We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true. But you people sit there, day after day, night after night all ages, colors, creeds.
- We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal.
- You do whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs!
- In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion.
- So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now. Turn them off!
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