Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem) Quotes
Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
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I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.
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You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
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Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.
