Brad Henry Quotes
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
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I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.
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I was really, really shy when I was a little girl.
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I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.'
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Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.
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What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.