Frank Abagnale Quotes

The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.

Frank Abagnale

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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Want
  • Know
  • Alone

• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Power
  • Generation

• New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Me
  • Hard
  • New York

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Environmental

• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Enjoy

• Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Real
  • Day

• When I'm about to go on stage, and I look out and just see the fans filled out in the arena, all pumped up and screaming - that gives me butterflies! I just love that feeling, and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a great show!'

  

  Manika
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Gives

• Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Sand

• All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Star
  • Hard
  • Very

• If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Up
  • America
  • Girl

• When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Ocean

• Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Support

• I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Player

• I really fight for my privacy.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan

• A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Character
  • Movie

• Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Forgiveness

• My chemistry teacher wanted me to do chemistry, and my art teacher wanted me to do art. Fashion seemed like a good in-between - using your brain but being creative.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fashion

• He encouraged them to explore their doubts, ask their questions, and express themselves honestly. Many people crave certainty. They don’t want to have to think, agonize, or grapple with life’s difficult questions for themselves. Instead they want dogma. They want guaranteed answers.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Questions
  • Doubts
  • Dogma

• Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Problems
  • Facts
  • Solution

• Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.

  

  John Hillcoat

• The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.

  

  Frank Abagnale