7 seconds sound clip from the Meet John Doe (1941) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:38:18 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- If you can't lay your dirty fingers on a decent idea, and twist it, and squeeze it into your pocket, like dogs, if you can't eat something, you bury it.
- This is the one worthwhile thing that's come along.
- People are finally find out that the guy next door isn't a bad egg.
- That's simple, isn't it?
- Yet a thing like that has got a chance of spreading till it touches every human being in the world, and you talk about killing it.
- Well, when this fire dies down, what's going to be left? More misery, more hunger and more hate.
- And what's to prevent that from starting all over again?
- Nobody knows the answer to that and certainly not you, with those slimy, bollixed up theories you got.
- The John Doe idea may be the answer though, it may be the one thing capable of saving this world, and you sit on your fat hulks and tell me you'll kill it if you can't use it.
- Well, go ahead and try. You couldn't do it in a million years with all your radio stations and all your power
- Because it's bigger than whether I'm a fake or your ambition and bigger than all the bracelets and fur coats in the world!
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