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You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

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Johnny Cash
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 26
Died: 2003
Died: September 12
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The Man in Black
John R. Cash
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We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.
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San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
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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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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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I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.
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I think in my world of religion, you're called to preach or you don't preach. Called by God to preach. I never been ordained by God to preach the gospel. I have a calling, it's called to perform and sing.
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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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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
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So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.
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He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
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I'm thrilled to death with life.
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Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
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Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.
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Why me, Lord? What have I ever done to deserve even one of the blessings I've known? Why me, Lord? What did I ever do that was worth love from you and the kindness you've shown? Lord, help me, Jesus, I've wasted it so. Help me, Jesus. I know what I am. Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand.
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I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called Because You're Mine. And he said, I Walk The Line is a better title, so I changed it to I Walk The Line.
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I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.
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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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Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.
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I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.
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I came to believe in a power much higher than I
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