Ansel Elgort (Ansølo) Quotes
My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.
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We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.
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I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement from my new wife, Earlene.
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Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.
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My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
