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'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

Country Diaries Dirt Excited
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Writing Simple Justice Trying
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Admit Errors Intolerable More
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Music comes to me more readily than words.

Me More Music Readily
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I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Able Almost Am Any
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This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Admirable Face Man Mark
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If everyone can be as good as Madiba or Mother Theresa it could work. But people are not that nice. People act in their self interest.

Everyone Good People Nice
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I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Artistic Be Happy Before Come
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If you make a mistake as an employee, admit it to your superior, because then you own the problem together.

Mistake Employee Superior Problem together
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Admired Appears Art Artist
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Armstrong Because Came Dad
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Grew Mark Mark Twain Reading
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

Books Exercises Floor Get
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

Banjo Between Birthday Father
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Anything Burned Dancer Died
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

About Add Extra Friend
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

Because Before Beginning Born
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Cool Dad Everybody Guitar
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

Could Couple Enjoyed Face
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Never wear spiritualism as a badge to decorate your ego. You can choose to see in a society where it is profitable to be willfully blind.
Never Spiritualism Ego Decorate
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Your spiritual journey is not much of a journey of discovery but of recovery. You are uncovering your own inner nature. It is already there. Don’t allow anyone sell to you what was stolen from your pocket.

Spiritual Journey Discovery Recovery
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It’s time to stop being part of the problem by speaking out about the culture of harmful practices and impunity that has led to needless murders. We are not merely showing discontent but addressing the need to change the reinforcement of this impunity & negligence.

Speaking Harmful Practices Murders
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

After Could Couple Folk
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Class English English People Paradigm
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Alone Bread Creature Lives
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Every successful person has a painful story and Every painful story has a successful ending, Accept the pain and get ready for success.

Every successful Painful story Ending
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Follow May lead Leave Trail
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When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

Another Away Back Came
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your visions create a path in which success lies in the tunnel ahead.

Your visions Success lies
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My advice to young people: listen to your parents a lot less.

My advice Young people Parents
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The advantage of not being able to do something, is that it gives you something to do!

The advantage Do something Gives
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Nigeria cannot work under an indolent, impotent, incapacitated and ignominious ruler. If the country must work, we need a True Visionary Leader beyond rhetorics with CAPACITY and Perspicacity (Clarity).

Nigeria Impotent Work Visionary Leader
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There are people seeking your attention now that you are treating with disdain. Note that a future looms, where you will wish you had treated them better.

Seeking Attention Treating Disdain
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No road is long with good company. No ambition is too big with the requisite support. Associate yourself with wise people of good quality.

No road Good company No ambition Too big
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So, across the broad spectrum, you may have it better than most people you envy. Be grateful for your journey and embrace it with love.
Broad spectrum You envy Be grateful
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One of the disadvantages of being young is that most of the tragedy you’ll face still lies ahead in your future We need to prepare ourselves and those around us to embrace these challenges and overcome them Only then, will we be ready to change the world

Disadvantages Tragedy Face Future
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Turn to Lord and cast your cares and burdens unto Him. Let go of your sinful habits, for He is ever ready to forgive and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. He is the God of a second chance.

Lord Cares Burden Unto him
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Engage yourself in things that will profit you. Read books that will empower you. Watch and listen to materials that will inspire you and not things that will break your confidence.

Profit you Yourself Read book Inspire you
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Accept Actually Challenge Full
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Any Apart Fame Gods
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Dead Finds Language Prepared
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Another Endless Happily Leading
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Enemy Friends Suppressed Truth
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Affect Difficulty Him Literature
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Cathedral Churches Favorite Great
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Alive Amen Humbly Instead
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I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Big Come Family ILove
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My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.

Always Autograph Back Bill
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I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Any Area Black Blocked
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