Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem) Quotes
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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.
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I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.
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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.'
