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The only way you can protect yourself is by having a personal policy of your own.

4 seconds sound clip from the Double Indemnity movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:33:07 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- A couple of nights later I went to the house.

- Everything looked fine, except I didn't like the witness Phyllis had brought in.

- It was Dietrichson's daughter, Lola.

- And it made me feel a little queer in the belly to have her sitting right there in the room, playing Chinese checkers as if nothing were going to happen.

- I suppose you realize that, not being an employee you are not covered by the State Compensation Insurance Act.

- The only way you can protect yourself is by having a personal policy of your own.

- Yeah, I know all about that. The next thing you'll tell me I need earthquake insurance and lightning insurance and hail insurance.

- If we bought all the insurance they can think up we'd stay broke paying for it, wouldn't we, honey?

- What keeps us broke is you going out and buying five hats at a crack.

- Who needs a hat in California?

- Dollar for dollar, accident insurance is the cheapest coverage you can buy.

[...]

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Double Indemnity Sound Clip

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Memorable quotes with sound from the movie Double Indemnity (1944), based on James M. Cain's 1943 novella of the same name.

Actors: Fred MacMurray (Walter Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (Phyllis Dietrichson), Edward G. Robinson (Barton Keyes)

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