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I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.

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We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.
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I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.
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Tim McGraw
I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.
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I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am.
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There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.
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But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
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Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.
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I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
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When you get where youre goin Dont forget turn back around Help the next one in line.
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My old friend, I recall the times we had hanging on my wall. I wouldn't trade them for gold ‘cause they laugh and they cry me, somehow sanctify me. They're woven in the stories I have told and tell again.
Tim McGraw
There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love.
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