I know it's hard to take. I've been putting off running the story because I knew it would hurt you. But I can't put it off any longer.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Naked Street (1955) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:42:53.200 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Run the toughest story on Regal you can write.

- List every crime we've ever accused him of, name all his assistant rights, every name you can dig up.

- How will that help?

- You might just scare one of them.

- You know, we can talk about being brilliant prosecutors from now till doomsday, but the truth is there's only one way that organized crime can be cracked: get somebody on the inside to talk. Your story might just scare one of them enough to do it.

- I know it's hard to take. I've been putting off running the story because I knew it would hurt you. But I can't put it off any longer.

- I'm not gonna read any more of this. I don't believe a word of it.

- It's all true.

- You don't know Phil very well. You don't know half the good things he does.

- You don't know what he's done for me and Nicky.

- Look, that's the side of it you want to see. Sooner or later you're going to have to face up to the other side.

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