Frank Abagnale Quotes
I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.
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A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
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People should be blessed in life with friends who are both 'Mirrors and Shadows'! Mirrors don't lie and shadows never leave.
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But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.
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I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.
