Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
JOHNNY CASHYou build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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It’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
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I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you’re mine, I walk the line.
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I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.
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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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My arms are too short to box with God.
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I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.
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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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There’s no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
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I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
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A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don’t go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.
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Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
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If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
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When I think about country music, I think about America.
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You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
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I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
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I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
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Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God’s holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.
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Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
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They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.
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I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn’t be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.
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You can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up. I don’t give – and it’s not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don’t give up. I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
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