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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.

Johnny Cash

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
You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
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Be Yourself Identity Reality Self Love Yourself
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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Country Establishment Myself Normal People Wild
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
It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.
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Believe Break Goodness People 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
Life is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It’s been beautiful.
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Beautiful God Life Myself
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
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Empty Happiness Lonely Yourself
For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
JOHNNY CASH

Burn Myself Ocean Try Yourself
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
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
Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
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God Inspirational Life Love Motivational Reason Way
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
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 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
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
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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Death Hands Man Myself Remember Right Work
When you sing, you pray twice.
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Prayer Sing Yourself
My arms are too short to box with God.
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Fight God Hands Myself
We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
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Inspirational Team Work Togetherness
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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Drug God Growth Myself Satisfaction Soul Try World
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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Myself People Personality Trouble
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
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Black Crime Hope Hungry Live Myself Poor Prison Time Victim
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
If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
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Emotion Feeling Self Love Voice Yourself
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
It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.
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Live Man Reality Tough Yourself

For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.

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