Frank Abagnale Quotes

Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

Frank Abagnale

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• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

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• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

  

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• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

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• I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

  

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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.

  

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• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

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• When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

  

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• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
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• I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

  

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• A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.

  

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• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  

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• Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

  

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• And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

  

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• My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.

  

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• Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • People
  • Life
  • Teenager