When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
JOHNNY CASHThere’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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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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I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
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When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
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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 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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You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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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 found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
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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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My arms are too short to box with God.
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It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.
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We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
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Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.
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Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.
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