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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.

Johnny Cash

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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Build Failure Inspirational Motivational Step Stone 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 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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Book Excitement Learning Myself Novel Reading Study
Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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Audience Entertainment Greatness Performance Prison
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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Creative Divine Feed Myself Order People Source
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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Heaven Hell Learning Man Myself Place
Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.
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Bond Comfortable Friendship Happiness Love Peace People
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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Change Grief Hope Loss Transformation Way World Yourself
We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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Inspirational Team Work Togetherness
We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
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Country Equality God Heaven Wasted
When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.
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Better Forgiveness God Myself
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
For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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Burn Myself Ocean Try Yourself
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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Business Exception Money Success World
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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Burn Excitement Fire Love Ourselves Ring Yourself
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better. I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.
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Choice Face Gratitude Hate Life Love Myself Negative Positive Worst

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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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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