Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
JOHNNY CASHThere’s a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there’s a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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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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A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
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I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.
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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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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
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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’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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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.
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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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People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country.
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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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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
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We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.
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