O.J.: Made in America Quotes
O.J. Simpson: [referring to his refusal to participate in racial tensions during the Watts riots]I'm not black, I'm O.J.
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Carl Douglas: I went to an inner-city high school. Our football team was terrible, but our fighters were good. We might lose the fourth quarter in the ballgame, but we'd win the fifth quarter after the game, the fight. It's called the fifth quarter. That was, at most, a two-year crime dripping wet. The judge in that case held the jury out until eleven o'clock on a Friday night thirteen years to the day of O.J. Simpson's verdict on October the third. That in my mind was not a coincidence. And the 33-year sentence - reflecting the 33 million dollars in the civil verdict - was no coincidence. And that was the fifth quarter. They got back at O.J. for winning our case.
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David Gascon: [referring to the many police units following the infamous Bronco]That wasn't a police chase, that's an accompaniment.
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Zoey Tur: I've covered so many of these things. This was not usual police behavior. If O.J. Simpson were black, that shit wouldn't have happened. He'd be on the ground getting clubbed. But because he transcended race and color to this exalted state of celebrity, he got a motorcade.
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Yolanda Crawford: [Asked why the jury took only four hours to reach a verdict after 267 days of trial]Two hundred and sixty-six nights. Two hundred sixty-six nights all alone, shut out from the world.
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Robert Lipsyte: He was telling me a story about being at a teammate's wedding with his wife, sitting at a table with mostly, as he said, Negroes. And he overheard a white woman at the next table saying, Look, there's O.J. sitting with all those niggers. And I remember, in my na´vetÚ, saying to O.J., Gee, wow, that must be terrible for you. He said, No, it was great. Don't you understand? She knew that I wasn't black. She saw me as O.J. And really, at that moment, I thought he was fucked.
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O.J. Simpson: [Referring to the Bruno Magli shoes he claimed he never owned]I would never wear those ugly-ass shoes.
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Peter Hyams - Interviewee: [after the not guilty verdict was announced]I think the black jubilation was very offensive, and very hurtful, the news footage of African Americans cheering and whites crying, it put a huge red line across the American society.
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Yolanda Crawford: [after O.J. has tried on the bloody glove]I looked at Darden like, I can't believe you did it. You let him play you. You are the weaker one, and you didn't have to be.
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Robin Greer: She was free and she was happy without him, and I think he knew it was really over. She was saying to herself, I'm going to date who I want, I'm going to go where I want, I'm going to be friends with who I want. I'm free. You have lost me, O.J. Watch me run. There was something almost unattainable about her that he couldn't quite control, and I think that was part of the attraction, and I think in the final analysis that's what got her killed.
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Marcia Clark - Interviewee: [Upon realizing that Mark Furhman perjured himself on the stand after the reveal of the tapes]What the fuck, dude?
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Carl Douglas: [talking about Marcia Clark's correct assertion that they manipulated the photos on O.J.'s wall]Marcia saw the wall, and she said, Carl, you know damn well that he has never had this many black people on his wall in his entire life. I said, Marcia! What are you talking about? How dare you accuse us of such things?
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Jeffrey Toobin: Really? O.J. Simpson as a civil rights victim? It was disgusting. It was appalling.
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Marcia Clark - Interviewee: [shocked upon learning OJ Simpson was arrested for armed robbery, burglary, and kidnapping]Are you kidding me? Seriously, are you kidding me? you walked away from a double murder.
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T. Larry Kirkland Sr.: I think each person who is in the limelight has an obligation to make things better for the last, the lost, the least, the left-out and the looked-over. And I thought he should have done more.
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Marcia Clark - Interviewee: [to reporters on her lawn]Why don't you get the fuck out of here, you fucking asshole?
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Peter Hyams - Interviewee: [talking about the studio decision regards to casting O.J. in Capricorn One]I thought there were worthy African American actors who had paid their dues as actors, who had shown their talent. My first choice was either Robert Hooks or Bernie Casey, so my reaction was less than enthusiastic. I had seen The Towering Inferno. I thought he was not going to frighten Daniel Day-Lewis. O.J. was a celebrity of enormous stature, and somebody who had not shown the chops to play the part. My goal was to see if I could make this guy work for what I wanted. It came time to do his last scene. He's a guy who's parched and delusional. So rather than him acting somebody who was desperately thirsty, I put appliances on his face that made it difficult for him to move and difficult to talk, and it just made him sound like he was in desperate trouble. And he was pretty good. You know, what can I say? He was a charming, terrific guy, he was a positive guy, he tried very hard, and it was clear that he saw a future for himself in film.
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O.J. Simpson: [narrating first lines]As a kid growing up in the ghetto, one of the things I wanted the most was not money, it was fame. I wanted to be known, I wanted people to say, hey there goes O.J.
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Ron Shipp: [referring to OJ Simpson after he was convicted for armed robbery and kidnapping]he kept pushing the envelope and, why wouldn't he? I mean if I got away with everything time, after time, after time, hey, I'm a God!
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O.J. Simpson: [last lines, recorded on June 17, 1994]I don't know how I ended up here, I just don't know how I ended up here. I thought I lived a great life. I thought I treated everybody well, I went out of my way to make everybody comfortable and happy. I felt the goodness in myself and the goodness I gave him, I don't feel any goodness in myself right now. I feel empty, I feel totally empty but I feel I have a last thing to say to somebody, please remember me as the juice, please remember me as a good guy, please.
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Ron Shipp: so, I said OJ, what happened to your finger? And he says I cut on a glass I'm Chicago, and I went, oh ok, somebody else sat down and asked him the same question, and he said I was chipping golf balls, later on that evening, same question came up, oh you know I was getting a cell phone out of the Bronco, and cut myself and I was like wow
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Carl Douglas: [about Chris Darden]It was apparent to everybody in America why he was now on the case.
Ezra Edelman: Why was he on the case?
Carl Douglas: Well, certainly because he was black! Well, that was pear, buddy. Oh, because he's a good lawyer! He's a good lawyer! We want to strengthen the team up! That was the party line.
Ezra Edelman: Why was he on the case?
Carl Douglas: Well, certainly because he was black! Well, that was pear, buddy. Oh, because he's a good lawyer! He's a good lawyer! We want to strengthen the team up! That was the party line.
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O.J. Simpson: [a video image of three cheerleaders lap-dancing on him]Thank you Jesus!
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Marcia Clark - Interviewee: [on whether to have OJ Simpson try on the leather gloves that was recovered from the crime scene at Rockingham and Bundy]Chris says I want to do it and I told him in no uncertain terms why we should not be doing this, and he said if we don't do this: they will, then I said let them and we can show why it was a bullshit experiment why it was never going to work between the shrinkage and the latex, it's never going to fit in the same way, don't do this: it was the biggest fight Chris and I ever had.
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Fred Goldman: [referring to OJ Simpson answering the questions asked to him during his deposition in the civil lawsuit]he lied about everything, there's not one honest bone in his body. He lived a life of fraud.
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Tom Lange: [describing the crime scene]when I got there they had the scene pretty well secured. They had the entire block taped off, the front door was wide open, old music playing in the background, candles lit inside, it was a very violent confrontation: rage, two victims, blood everywhere, we find a glove, it was the left glove, and a blood trail, indicating the suspect has been wounded on the left side, so we're just getting into this, when we find out that this is apparently OJ Simpson and his estranged wife, they had two children asleep, a very brutal murder, someone's got to make death motivation for the next of kin, which is Simpson.
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Marcia Clark - Interviewee: [referring Mark Fuhrman, while he was testifying on the witness stand after committing perjury]I didn't even want to look at him: you have been a liar throughout and the only reason I know you didn't plant the glove because you couldn't have, otherwise, I'm with them.
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Marcia Clark - Interviewee: [referring to OJ's defense team]They really did it, they acquitted him. They really did it, they walked him out the door.
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Bill Hodgman: [after the not guilty verdict was read]later I was talking with the deputy sheriff he had taken jurors to where they were released he said all across the parking lot there were high fives and cheers and smiles and I heard it over and over that was payback for Rodney King.
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Bill Hodgman: [how he felt after the not guilty verdict was read]it was almost like an outer body experience. I had a feeling of numbness, did this really happen?
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