The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
JOHNNY CASHPeople 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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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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I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
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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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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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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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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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You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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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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There’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.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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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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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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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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When you sing, you pray twice.
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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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