Marshall Bruce Mathers III Quotes
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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 did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.
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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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I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.
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If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.
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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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You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!
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Don't ever let no one tell you, you ain't beautiful
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Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.
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Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.
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Inside I'll always be an outsider
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With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start with the music, and then the ideas follow. Then you start thinking of rhymes, and then you record it, and sometimes - this happens to me a lot - it doesn't come out as good as it did in my head when I first wrote it.
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
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You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.
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I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.
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Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.
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I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
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Music is reflection of self.
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It feels good to have your work respected again.
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I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.
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They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam. All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo With the ugly Kardashian... Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.
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We sing for these kids who don't have a thing.
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Touring used to be hard. Early on in my career when I was more in grind mode, I was doing two or three shows a day. It was tough because you start feeling like you have no life. That being said, I do enjoy actually doing the shows.
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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.