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.

Rodney Atkins

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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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• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

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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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• It takes heart to be in political life.

  

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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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• There's something really liberating standing in front of an audience and playing live. It's a very communal experience, because we're giving a lot from the stage, but the crowd is giving a lot back to us, and it ends up feeling like family by the end of the show.

  

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• I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

  

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• For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance.

  

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• When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the sins, but it will at least record them. The sinners would be known, and the victims' stories would be known.

  

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• I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

  

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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.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Life
  • She
  • Girl