Oscar Wilde Quotes

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

Oscar Wilde

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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

Flavor Flav
- Up
- Good
- Trying
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Barbara Kruger
- Music
- Moments
- Influence
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Good
- Person
- Impossible
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

D. H. Lawrence
- Experience
- Soul
- Purpose
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

Adam Lambert
- Music
- Soul
- Crazy
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing
- Think
- Change
- Thoughts