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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.
I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.
On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.
You never know where a blessing can come from.
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