Were it not for vanity, why at this very moment I could embrace you in my arms... my son.

Jor El (Marlon Brando)

24 seconds sound clip from the Superman (1978) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:39:18 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Your help would be called for endlessly. Even for those tasks which human beings could solve themselves. It is their habit to abuse their resources in such a way.

- And secondly?

- Second, your enemies will discover their only way to hurt you: By hurting the people you care for.

- Thank you, Father.

- Lastly, do not punish yourself for your feelings of vanity. Simply learn to control them. It is an affliction common to all, even on Krypton.

- Our destruction could have been avoided but for the vanity of some who consider us indestructible.

- Were it not for vanity, why at this very moment I could embrace you in my arms... my son.

- Reports are coming in of a miraculous saving of Air Force One...

- A burglar was apprehended by a man in a blue suit and red cape...

- Rescuing Miss Lois Lane writer on the Daily Planet, with one hand, and a...

- Yeah, that'll be the day, huh? I said, that'll be the day when a guy could fly, huh?

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