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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.

Tom Petty

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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Fall Life People Start Yourself
What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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Each Other Learning Marriage Yourself
If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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Corporation Country Profit
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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Break Different Health Important Old Pain Start Yourself
There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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Freedom Run
I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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Myself Night Tired Worry
I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Incredible Lazy Myself
That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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Drugs Fun Pay Stupidity Thinking
If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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Enough Growth Listening Skin Strong Yourself
I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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Friendship Introvert Man Myself
I got my own way of praying.
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Myself Prayer Way
The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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Faith Hard Heart Part Yourself
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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Abandonment Lose Yourself
I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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Health Mental Physical Thinking
I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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Luck Success Thinking Yourself
Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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Mindset Myself Place Time

You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.

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