Frank Abagnale Quotes
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I would love to be a role model.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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The great apostle of the Philistines, Lord Macaulay
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What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
