Our list of Eminem Quotes
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.
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The Eminem's quote says that those who stab in the back, that is, traitors, are only strong when we are turned away from them.
This concept is fundamental as far as our lives are concerned.
During our journey, we will find traitors, trustworthy people who betray us to their advantage. But we have to be prepared for this kind of event.
To be prepared for such a situation, we must first not be foolish and handle things as independently as possible.
In addition, we must constantly watch our backs and have possible solutions in case a betrayal happens.
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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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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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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I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
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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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Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
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A lot of truth is said in jest.
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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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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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I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
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These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
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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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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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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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I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
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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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I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.
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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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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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The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.
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Honestly, I never really put the mic down.
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I need to keep working on myself for a while.
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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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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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I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
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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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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
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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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Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
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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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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 was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
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It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.
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I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
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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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I'm very much a creature of habit.
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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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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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Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
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When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.
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I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.
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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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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
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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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A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
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I need drama in my life to keep making music.
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Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
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My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.
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I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
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When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.
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Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
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I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'
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I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
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There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.
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I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.
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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
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I didn't just invent saying offensive things.
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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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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.
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I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
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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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If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
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Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
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Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.
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I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.
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Guns are bad, I tell you.
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I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.
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I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.
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I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
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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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It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
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Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
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Touring is hard on the body.
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Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
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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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Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.
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Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
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Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!
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I'm not really book-smart.
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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
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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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I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
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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's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.
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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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Rap was my drug.
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As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.
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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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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.
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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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I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
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My only scheme was to be a rapper.
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Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.
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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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I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.
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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
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A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
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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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Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.
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I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
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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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I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.
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It feels good to have your work respected again.
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My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.
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Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil.
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Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.
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If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.
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Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength, and just pull that shit out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter. No matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.
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I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.
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Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters.
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Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.
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Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.
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Damn. How much damage can you do with a pen?
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Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fucked just stay true to you.
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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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When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.
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I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.
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