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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.

Johnny Cash

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
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Audience Entertainment Greatness Performance Prison
When I think about country music, I think about America.
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Country Music Myself Thinking
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
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
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Build Energy Failure Forget Mistake Past Space Step Time Try Yourself
Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
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Live Ourselves Teaching
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
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 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
My arms are too short to box with God.
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Fight God Hands Myself
If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself
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Opinion Politics Yourself
We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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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
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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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

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.

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