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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
Will Rogers
States
Oklahoma
Both
California
Left
Moved
Raised
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
Technology
Problem
Simple
Oklahoma
City
Horribly
Person
Persons
Used
Using
Bombing
Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
Reba McEntire
Work
Today
Good
Training
Work Hard
Result
Good Job
Mind
Job
Everything
Oklahoma
Out
Rural
Directions
Take
Had
Because
Am
Up
Mama
Done
Where
Anything
Then
Hard
Daddy
Growing
Growing Up
Career
Set
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.
Tommy Lee Jones
God
Best
Me
World
Sorry
Living
Kid
Those
Oklahoma
Kids
Some
Born
Had
Put
Knew
Like
Because
Felt
Texas
Place
Little
Poor
Little Kids
Ground
England
Luckiest
Actually
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
God
Nothing
Think
Oklahoma
Would
About
Name
Without
Just
Alabama
University
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
People
White
Down
Negroes
Oklahoma
Indians
Born
One-Third
Got
Where
Population
Started
As a native of Parsons, Kansas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, I have a deep respect for tribal nations in Oklahoma. But this federal spending in Oklahoma is outrageous. And excessive subsidies have made the state a playground for Lifeline fraud.
Ajit Pai
Respect
Tribal
Made
State
Spending
Oklahoma
Fraud
Border
Small
Federal
Lifeline
Outrageous
Excessive
Federal Spending
Small Town
Town
Subsidies
Nations
Native
Kansas
Deep
Near
Playground
Oklahoma's always been good to me.
Alan Jackson
Good
Me
Oklahoma
Always
Been
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
Today
Girl
Teen
Teenage
Teenage Girls
Oklahoma
Small
Small Town
True
Town
Read
Up
Northeast
Packs
Growing
Growing Up
At every juncture as Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards - not to defend them.
Amber Valletta
Environmental
Every
Consistently
Oklahoma
General
Attack
Attorney
Attorney General
Safeguards
Undermine
Juncture
Scott
Them
Chosen
Defend
We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.
Andy Grove
Time
Internet
Living
Oklahoma
Rush
New
Territory
Equivalent
New Territory
Land
Cyber
Now
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.
Anita Hill
Work
State
State University
Oklahoma
Undergraduate
Graduated
University
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
Annette Bening
Honey
Way
Oklahoma
Am
Oh
Who
In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.
Ansel Elgort
Discouraged
Oklahoma
Could
Lead
Knew
Leading
Leading Role
Like
Sing
Were
Role
Get
Did
Grade
Fifth
Really
Whole
Play
Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
B. Wayne Hughes
Family
You
Car
Dust
Everything
Way
Oklahoma
Tops
Out
Wrath
Guys
Wiped
California
Read
Got
Came
Western
Movie
Storms
Grapes
Dad
'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
Bailey Chase
Grace
Saving
Saving Grace
Oklahoma
Though
Outside
Shot
Even
Right
Set
You come to Oklahoma to beat Texas. I was born and raised in Austin. They didn't recruit me. I grew up 15 miles from their campus. I can't stand them.
Baker Mayfield
Me
You
Oklahoma
Born
Beat
Recruit
Come
Texas
Austin
Up
Campus
Grew
Them
Stand
Miles
Raised
The best thing - I say it all the time - what happened at Oklahoma was sitting for a year after I transferred. To sit there and be able to focus on the physical parts of my body. You know, develop, and then the mental side of the game, learning.
Baker Mayfield
Time
Best
You
Game
Learning
Focus
Year
Sit
Side
Say
Oklahoma
Physical
Able
Mental
Develop
Know
Parts
Sitting
After
Happened
Transferred
Then
Body
Thing
The energy I bring, the passion I bring, it's infectious. You can ask anybody on that Oklahoma staff. That's what I bring to the table.
Baker Mayfield
You
Passion
Energy
Oklahoma
Table
Infectious
Staff
Anybody
Ask
Bring
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
You
Age
People
Coffee
Final
Final Draft
Hundred
Oklahoma
Only
Computer
Go
Up
Shop
Any
Then
Your
Show
Draft
Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.
Bill Paxton
Waiting
Sit
Wayne
Oklahoma
John
Some
More
John Wayne
Johnson
Knew
Budget
Budget Film
Him
Around
Years
Years Ago
Texas
Up
Than
Famous
While
Low
Low-Budget
Us
Worked
Shot
Growing
Growing Up
Film
Night
Ben
Oklahoma City's not real small; it's got a good amount of the people.
Blake Griffin
Good
People
Oklahoma
City
Small
Got
Real
Amount
I appreciate the history and tradition of Notre Dame. I also appreciate the history and tradition of Oklahoma, and I have been part of building that tradition here.
Bob Stoops
History
Building
Oklahoma
Part
Also
Tradition
Been
Notre Dame
Here
Appreciate
Dame
When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma.
Bob Stoops
Me
People
Say
Oklahoma
Where
Ask
Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.
Bobby Heenan
Oklahoma
Yes
Any
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
Brad Henry
Stronger
Oklahoma
Fabric
Woven
Throw
Obstacle
Us
Grow
Deeply
Resilience
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