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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. -- Will Rogers
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. -- Brad Henry
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated. -- Brad Henry
For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma. -- Brad Henry
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. -- J. C. Watts
I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American. -- J. C. Watts
I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma! -- Kinky Friedman
Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa. -- Bobby Heenan
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma. -- Wanda Jackson
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977 -- Anita Hill
My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts. -- Don Nickles
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since. -- Darrell Royal
Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa. -- J. C. Watts
I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed. -- Patti Page
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
I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up. -- Ronnie Dunn
I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids. -- Carrie Underwood
We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either. -- Carrie Underwood
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were -- Tony Hillerman
We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way. -- Brad Henry
My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there. -- Trey Parker
Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us? -- Tom Coburn
Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me. -- Blake Shelton
I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. -- Brad Pitt
Oklahoma's always been good to me. -- Alan Jackson
Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma. -- Bryan Q. Miller
My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma. -- Johnny Bench
Oklahoma is the cultural center of the universe. -- Hoyt Axton
Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has. -- Edna Ferber
Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing. -- Mark Levin
(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players. -- Doc Rivers
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. -- Scott Westerfeld
As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure. -- J. C. Watts
People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it. -- Barry Switzer
I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma. -- Gary Busey
I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud. -- N. Scott Momaday
You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody. -- Abe Lemons
I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. -- Ronnie Dunn
I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them. -- Timothy McVeigh
If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change. -- Will Rogers
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way! -- Annette Bening
I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I'm not kidding. -- Kristin Chenoweth
Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you. -- Charlaine Harris
This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives. -- Lizz Winstead
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. -- Tim Blake Nelson
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977. -- Anita Hill
When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma. -- Mark Shields
I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler. -- Christian Kane
I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma. -- Adam McKay
With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage. -- James Garner
I love Oklahoma. The fans have been with me every night. What more can you ask for? -- Kevin Durant
People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them. -- Mick Cornett
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl. -- Billy Crystal
I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage. -- Christian Kane
The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. -- Rob Lowe
Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A. -- Bailey Chase
I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes. -- Chris Paul
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
I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma. -- Paul Laffoley
I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s. -- Garth Brooks
I'm still the same guy. My name is still Greyson Chance from Oklahoma. I grow much taller. But nothing really changes. -- Greyson Chance
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
I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works. -- Buzz Osborne
A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma. -- Deacon Jones
The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. -- Yakov Smirnoff
The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it. -- Billy Graham
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium. -- Edward Abbey
Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson]. -- Edward Norton
The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why. -- Megan Hilty
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
I like the phrase "shot heard 'round the world," and I don't think there's any doubt the Oklahoma City blast was heard around the world. -- Timothy McVeigh
When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on. -- Reba McEntire
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
The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change. -- Ree Drummond
People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it. -- Bonnie Raitt
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. -- John Steinbeck
Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did. -- Bill Hader
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma. -- Ally Carter
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
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
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
I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11. -- Daniel Woodrell
I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life. -- Reba McEntire
Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing. -- Dan Jenkins
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
I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers. -- Matt Kemp
The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives. -- Mary Fallin
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
I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university. -- Brian Bosworth
I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now it's about the Thunder and Oklahoma City. -- Derek Fisher
Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere. -- Herb Boyd
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
If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go. -- Simon Schama
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
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
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
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about. -- Blake Bailey
I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74. -- Reba McEntire
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were. -- Tony Hillerman
It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!' -- Christine Lakin
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
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
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When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears. -- Brad Pitt
Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.' -- John Fund
I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid. -- Christian Kane
Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, 'I want to be an artist' - is a good thing. -- Jeffrey Deitch
I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else. -- Rick Perry
Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City. -- Timothy McVeigh
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Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system? -- Kent Hovind
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
My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma. -- Bill Hader
I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft. -- Bill Hader
Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings. -- Brad Pitt
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
Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler. -- George Tahdooahnippah
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
I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling. -- Brad Pitt

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