Oklahoma Quotes - Page 3

• I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

  Billy Crystal

  Baseball, Mitzvah, Bars

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• I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

  Blake Shelton

  Home, California, Enemy

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• There are a lot of barbecue sauces. But I've been using Head Country barbecue sauce for 20 to 25 years, which is manufactured in Ponca City, Oklahoma. It's just awesome and has tremendous flavor. Many professional cooks use it and it can be found at Kroger and Walmart stores around the country. I use the Original, which has a white label and is a classic. But there's also a hickory flavor, called Hickory Smoke and one that has a little heat.

  Johnny Trigg

  Country, Years, Cities

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• Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing.

  Mark Levin

  Gun, Used, Bombing

  "Top 12 Quotes About Gun Control After Newtown, Conn. Shooting" by Susanna Kim, abcnews.go.com. December 17, 2012.

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• We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

  Mick Cornett

  Jobs, Oklahoma City, Cities

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• Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.

  Jim Bridenstine

  Heart, College, Cities

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• Beautiful fans of Oklahoma City, I can’t say enough about you guys. All the support you give our team. The home-court advantage we have is the best I’ve ever seen. We disappoint you sometimes, but we try our best every single night to win for you guys. And we want to win a championship for you guys.

  Kevin Durant

  Beautiful, Team, Home

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

  Woody Guthrie

  White, People, Population

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• Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does it matter, what does it matter?

  Hoyt Axton

  Doe, Matter, Born

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• My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.

  Suzy Amis

  Running, Growing Up, Cowboy

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• The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

  Mick Cornett

  Running, Oklahoma City, Land

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• We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

  Mick Cornett

  Oklahoma City, Cities, Tragedy

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• I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.

  Carolyn Wheat

  Book, Character, Writing

  Carolyn Wheat (2011). “How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense”, p.41, SCB Distributors

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• I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Tv Shows, People, Able

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• Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

  John Hoeven

  Alaska, Texas, Oil

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• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  Famke Janssen

  New York, Years, Thumbs

  "Famke Janssen and Bringing Up Bobby". Interview with Nicki Richesin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2012.

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• (Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

  Doc Rivers

  Player, Nba, Thunder

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• During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Labor Department and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA. If confirmed, the two men would signal a sharp break from the policies of the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Rachel Martin

  Men, Two, Presidential

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

  Blake Bailey

  Cities, Oklahoma City, Ethos

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• Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

  John Michael Hayes

  Running, Drinking, Years

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• The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'

  Will Rogers

  Real, Government, Land

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929”

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• Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.

  Luis A. Ferre

  Daughter, Cousin, New York

  "Luis A. Ferré Dies at 99; Pushed Puerto Rican Statehood" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2003.

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• Liberals pretend to believe that when two random hoodlums kill a gay man in Oklahoma, it's evidence of a national trend, but when a million people buy a book, it proves absolutely nothing about the book-buying public.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Book, Gay

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.131, Crown Forum

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• Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Oklahoma City, Cities

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• I've never seen a tornado and I've lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It's not like we're infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can.

  Mick Cornett

  Oklahoma City, Cities, Warning

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