Mary Fallin Quotes

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

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HistoryGreatAmerican DreamMoving

I am a bit of a control freak. If I get married, my wife isn't going out. No way. She's staying at home. She's not going out to clubs without me. I've already decided the rules, whoever she is.

Jermain Defoe

HomeWifeI AmMeControlRules

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

John le Carre

FamilyMeClothesYouDirtyDown

The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.

Matthew Walker

SleepThinkPressureSomethingUs

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Ambrose Bierce

DivorceBoundariesDiplomatic

You don't have to win 'Drag Race' to really win. And I am living proof of that, thank you Mary J. Blige!

Alyssa Edwards

I AmWinThank YouYouLivingRace

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

Stuart Woods

WorkLiveSolitudeI CanChapter

Many gloat over their own troubles.

Mason Cooley

OverOwnTroublesMany

I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

Michael Robotham

JobViolenceYouWrongCrimeOffer

When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.

Jonathan Van Ness

MomentBlessedGoHavingUnrest

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.

Dominic Monaghan

FearPeopleBodyUnknownUnderstand

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

Donald Rumsfeld

LookPresidentSeeImproveTellHow

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

Bruce Springsteen

LiveMusicMeEgoEnjoyAttention

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