Quotes by Eminem

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

— Eminem

Truth

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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Love

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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Friendship

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

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Success

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

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Wisdom

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

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Education

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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Life

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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Success

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

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Wisdom

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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Wisdom

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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Wisdom

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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Life

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

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Wisdom

A lot of truth is said in jest.

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Truth

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

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Wisdom

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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Success

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

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Hope

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

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Wisdom

I don't think that my tongue-in-cheekness will ever go away. I guess it's just a part of my personality. I always want to keep some type of element of fun to the music as well. If one song is darker or talking about a sad subject, I don't want to make a whole album of that, of being a downer. I don't want to make a whole album of being too uppity.

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Wisdom

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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Wisdom

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

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Friendship

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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Wisdom

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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Wisdom

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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Wisdom