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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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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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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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
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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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Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.
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I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.
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I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.
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I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.
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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.
