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I'm no genius, but I didn't hang on to my father's money by backing my own judgment, you know.

7 seconds sound clip from the Christmas in July (1944) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:47:15 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I'm not quite sure that I receive your thought.

- Well, I mean if you thought the ideas were good this afternoon, you still think they're good, don't you?

- Well, of course I do. Why?

- Well, I mean since they were good and they're still good, they'd have to be good.

- And then it wouldn't make so much difference...

- It wouldn't make any difference -Oh, any difference if I hadn't won the contest!

- Of course it would make a difference!

- Oh, it would?

- Well, certainly it would.

- But why?

- I'm no genius, but I didn't hang on to my father's money by backing my own judgment, you know.

- I make mistakes every day, sometimes several times a day. I've got a whole warehouse full of mistakes.

- I should say it would make a difference.

- You see, I think your ideas sound good, because they sound good to me, but I know your ideas are good, because you won this contest over millions of others.

- It's what you might call commercial insurance. Like for a race horse. If a horse wins the Kentucky Derby, well, then you back him for the Preekness.

- But I didn't win it.

- The Preekness?

- The contest. I didn't win anything, it was a joke.

[...]

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Christmas in July (1944) Sound Clip

The African Queen (1952)Funny quotes with sound clips from Christmas in July - Lux Radio Theatre play originally broadcast on June 25, 1944.

Actors: Dick Powell (Jimmy), Linda Darnell (Betty), Raymond Walburn (Maxford), Lionel Barrymore (Narrator)

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