Oklahoma Quotes - Page 5

• I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

  Mary Fallin

  Frustrated, Cost, States

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• What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hate, Oklahoma City, Blood

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• I'm still the same guy. My name is still Greyson Chance from Oklahoma. I grow much taller. But nothing really changes.

  Greyson Chance

  Names, Guy, Chance

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• I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Dad, Cities, Tulsa

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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• A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

  Raj Patel

  Hurt, New York, Iraq

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• I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

  Gary Busey

  Texas, Grew Up, Texan

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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• As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

  J. C. Watts

  Pressure, Quarterback, Under Pressure

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• When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Country, Texas, Rhode Island

  "It Only Took Five Minutes for Democrats to Politicize the Oklahoma Tornado". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 21, 2013.

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• A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much?

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Kids, Night

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• Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

  Dana Stabenow

  Mean, Idaho, Alaska

  Dana Stabenow (2011). “Play with Fire”, p.99, Gere Donovan Press

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• Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Textbooks, Endangered Species, Species

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

  Charlaine Harris

  Beautiful, Eric, Bill Compton

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.212, Penguin

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• But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened my eyes to how the game is played - the interaction among players, fans and media, how all that works. You have to know about the business of the game and how the actions of players and coaches affect the business. I think I have it down now.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Eye, Player

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• I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.

  Matt Kemp

  Real, Home, Thinking

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• A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than terrorism. People like this - there's not hate in their hearts. They believe what they believe because of the book that they prescribe to. You can't argue with these people.

  Leslie Jordan

  Hate, Book, Believe

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Food, Cooking, Chinese

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• My dad was a huge basketball influence in my life on and off the court. Playing for him and having him around, having him push me harder than maybe another coach would have was a huge blessing for me. Getting to play with my brother was an unreal experience at Oklahoma, in college, it's some of the funnest times I've had in basketball, and I'll cherish those memories forever.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Brother, Memories

  Source: www.slamonlineph.com

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• I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Anti Semitism

  "O Brother Who Art Thou? A Q&A With Actor/Writer/Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Jonathan Valania, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 03, 2013.

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• I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Dollars, Louisiana, Leaves Of Grass

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• I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

  Christian Kane

  Long, Grew Up, Wrestler

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• Everybody. No matter how they feel about me, everybody on Oklahoma City, on that team, of course I watch them. I support them. I want them to do well.

  Kevin Durant

  Team, Oklahoma City, Cities

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma.

  Todd Farmer

  Valentine, Mean, Texas

  Source: collider.com

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• I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.

  Chris Harrison

  Oklahoma City, Cities, Television

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• Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.

  Darrell Royal

  Opportunity, Texas, Guy

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• I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

  Garth Brooks

  School, Elephants, Bells

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