Ansel Elgort (Ansølo) Quotes

Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.

Ansel Elgort

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• I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • School
  • Age
  • Working

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Thought
  • Fresh
  • Them

• Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Never
  • Try
  • Products

• One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Death
  • Man
  • Trouble

• Love is an interesting thing.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Love Is

• The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Woman
  • See
  • Smell

• There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come true - that, to me, is what's beautiful about Los Angeles. It's full of these people who have moved there to chase these dreams.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • True
  • Beautiful

• I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Democracy

• It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Power
  • Giving

• Teamwork is a strategic decision.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decision
  • Teamwork

• I've never seen anyone say, 'Let's go get this person today; let's really ram it into him.' I've never seen it. If a Democrat or Republican commits some horrendous story, the story will run. The networks will cover it.

  

  Larry King
  • Today
  • Never
  • Story

• I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • True
  • Change
  • Look

• Armenian is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Learning

• I know a hell of a lot about intercourse. I wish I knew less.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Wish

• I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.

  

  David A. Adler
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I don't think the itch to fight has ever left me, ever. I mean, I got paid to do what I love for a living, and I got paid very well to do it. So that's going to always be there. That's always going to be like, 'Man, I wouldn't mind getting out there again.'

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Mind

• Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Animal
  • Hands
  • Haircut

• Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Nice
  • Canada

• At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry's tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Flower

• The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Society
  • Crime
  • Punishment

• Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.

  

  Ansel Elgort