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Quotes by Eminem
“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.”
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“I need to keep working on myself for a while.”
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“I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.”
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“Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.”
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“My only scheme was to be a rapper.”
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“Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.”
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“I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.”
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“Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.”
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“I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.”
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“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”
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“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”
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“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”
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“I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?”
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“I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.”
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“I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.”
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“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.”
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“I need drama in my life to keep making music.”
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“Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.”
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“Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.”
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“You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.”
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“Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.”
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“A lot of truth is said in jest.”
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“I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.”
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“I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.”
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“Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.”
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“These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.”
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“I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.”
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“When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.”
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“Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.”
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“You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.”
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