Rodney Atkins Quotes
When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.
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Plague was plague, and could not be treated lightly. And this plague was obviously worse than most, having killed everyone in the region.
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Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)
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I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
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I have cousins in North Carolina who talk in that old Southern style of 'yakking,' if you will. All the black men in my life when I was a boy talked that way, and I love that kind of talk.
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When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.
