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" Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa. "

" Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved. "

" Everybody knows that I like Oklahoma City, and I love being here. I love everybody here. "

Russell Westbrook

" For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that's where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people. "

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

" 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. "

" I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud. "

N. Scott Momaday

" I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma! "

" I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. "

Tim Blake Nelson

" I'm from Oklahoma, and Nick's from a small town in Illinois. "

" 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. "

" In Little League back in Oklahoma, I struck out 14 batters in a six-inning game, and we won the state championship. "

" It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that. "

" 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'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. "

" I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed. "

" 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? "

" My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma. "

" My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected. "

" My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts. "

" Oklahoma City, Katrina... those happened to other unfortunate people. But 9/11, that happened to us all. And that was pretty much the genesis of 'Reign Over Me.' "

" Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard. "

Markwayne Mullin

" Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial. "

" Oklahoma's always been good to me. "

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