Oklahoma Quotes - Page 6

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

  J. C. Watts

  Pressure, Quarterback, Under Pressure

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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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• 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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• When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, America, Tulsa

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I just want people in America to know that Oklahoma is a great place to live. You know, just like states have wildfires in California, or earthquakes or they may have other tornadoes in other areas of the - of the country, you know, this is really a great, great state. Our economy is doing beautifully, and the people are wonderful.

  Mary Fallin

  Country, Earthquakes, California

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I only had one year of eligibility and I wasn't getting many offers from other schools. I jumped on it to make a mark. That was the most wise decision I made coming out of Oklahoma junior college.

  John Starks

  Wise, School, College

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• [In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

  Alistair Cooke

  Horse, Gun, Land

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• I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.

  Ally Carter

  Writing, Artist, Way

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• I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

  Paul Laffoley

  Architecture, Study, Masters

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• 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

  Girl, Growing Up, Teenage

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• Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

  Annette Bening

  Who I Am, Class, Honey

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• 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

  Mother, Art, Kids

  Interview with Kimberly Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do.

  Carrie Underwood

  Song, Religious, Jesus

  "Carrie Underwood: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 09, 2009.

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• I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Texas, House, Mexico

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