Oklahoma City quotes

  • 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  • I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

  • Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

  • God gives everybody gifts, but he doesn't give anybody all the gifts.

  • Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.

  • You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  • For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

  • Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

  • I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

  • There's a reason people love watching blooper reels of actors falling about laughing.