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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

Johnny Cash

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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Children Hard Inspirational Music Myself Time
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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Forever Goal Missing Mistake Opportunity Reach Yourself
Life and love go on, let the music play.
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Life Love Music Play
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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Gain Learning Mistake Myself Pain Way
If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
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Change Friendship Lose Need Old Yourself
We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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Inspirational Team Work Togetherness
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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Age Graduation Job Knowledge People Time Yourself
When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.
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Better Forgiveness God Myself
When you sing, you pray twice.
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Prayer Sing Yourself
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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Flame Night Rose Sleep Strong White
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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Appearance Black God Home Hypocrisy Ideas Mindset Myself People Rebel Status
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
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Choice Face Hate Life Love Yourself
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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Bad Darkness Dog Home Place Powerful Time Way
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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Burn Country Flag Freedom Love Myself Praise Right Shoot Weapon Yourself
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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Children Goodness Man Mom Myself Shoot Son
Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
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Lesson Voice Way

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