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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I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
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I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.
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Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah.
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I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.
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Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
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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.
