Get calluses on your hands. Be a great dirt-under-the-fingernails boy.
5 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:44:58 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- What am I supposed to do while you clump around in your boots and lumberjack shirt?
- Have cocktails with the chipmunks? Hmm?
- Play bridge with the Eskimos?
- Get calluses on your hands. Be a great dirt-under-the-fingernails boy.
- Make fire by friction. Eat out of cans.
- Take a bath Saturday nights and go to an Eskimo hoedown.
- Teach them to samba, for all I care.
- It's bad enough having to pay for them.
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