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Richard Jewell: There's a bomb in Centennial Park. You have thirty minutes.
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Bobi Jewell: Why do you keep defending them?
Richard Jewell: I'm not defending, just explaning.
Bobi Jewell: Well, stop it!
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Watson Bryant: I'm sorry the world has gone insane.
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Watson Bryant: You ready to start fightin' back?
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Watson Bryant: This is Nadya.
Watson Bryant: She is... , she tells me what to do.
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Watson Bryant: A little power can turn a person into a monster, Richard.
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Richard Jewell: [to Bryant] I did not plant that bomb in Centennial Park, and I made the mistake of assuming you knew that.
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Nadya Light: Where I come from, when the government says someone's guilty, it's how you know they're innocent.
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Richard Jewell: If y'all need help finding anything, feel free to ask one of us. We can help.
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Tom Shaw: Mr Jewell, you said before that in your comings and goings back and forth from the stage to the tower that you couldn't get, uh, an exact fix on the time. Is that correct?
Richard Jewell: Yes, but when you have the runs, which I did, excuse me, you're not thinking about what time it is. You're just trying to crab-walk to a bathroom, you know?
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Watson Bryant: [sees the authorities approaching] You got any guns in the house?
Richard Jewell: Yeah, we're in Georgia.
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Watson Bryant: They wanna fry you, you know? Like a piece of bacon.
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Watson Bryant: You don't talk. I talk. Say it.
Richard Jewell: I don't talk. But I want those guys to know that I'm law enforcement too, just like them.
Watson Bryant: See right there, that's talking. That's what we don't want, OK?
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Watson Bryant: This kid's getting railroaded.
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[after finding out his house has been bugged]
Richard Jewell: Oh my lord. How can they do that?
Watson Bryant: It's easy. Cause you don't matter. That's how come.
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Watson Bryant: Richard, if you go for a cookie right now, I'm gonna chop off your hands and shove em up your ass! Try eating a cookie then, fucker!
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Richard Jewell: You're the only one who treated me like a human being! And now you're yelling at me, telling me I have to be somebody that I'm not! I'm not that guy, you're that guy!
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Watson Bryant: You know, I actually feel sorry for you guys: when the real bomber does it again, and the country asks, 'where was the FBI?' you're gonna say, 'we were busy getting hair samples from Richard Jewel.'
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Bobi Jewell: Richard is not the Olympic Park bomber. Richard is not a murderer, he saved people's lives. Please hear me, Mr. President and help me. You have the power to end this nightmare. My son is a hero. I think the FBI knows that by now. If they do not intend to charge my son, please tell us; please tell the world. Mr. President
[starts sobbing]
Bobi Jewell: please clear my son's name.
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Richard Jewell: Oh, Lord. They told us in training. "You ever see the bomb guy go pale, run."
Richard Jewell Quotes
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