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Quotes by Eminem
“I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'”
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“Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.”
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“Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.”
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“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.”
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“Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?”
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“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.”
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“There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.”
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“My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.”
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“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”
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“The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”
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“My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.”
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“I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.”
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“It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.”
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“I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.”
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“It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.”
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“If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.”
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“To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.”
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“I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.”
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“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.”
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“The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.”
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“The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.”
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“Rap was my drug.”
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“Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.”
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“Touring is hard on the body.”
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“My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.”
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“I'm not really book-smart.”
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“It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.”
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“The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.”
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“Guns are bad, I tell you.”
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“I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.”
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