Frank Abagnale Quotes
I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.Frank Abagnale
Quotes to Explore
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Ibrahim Babangida -
Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
Saina Nehwal -
Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
Hanya Yanagihara -
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Larry Wall -
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
I. M. Pei -
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Ferdinand Mount
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln -
In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
Gary Weiss -
No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
Ram Kapoor -
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt -
I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
Mackenzie Crook -
Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
Maajid Nawaz
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
Nancy Reagan -
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton -
I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
Maeve Binchy -
I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
Washed Out -
I read on the Internet that I was dead.
Fiona Apple -
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden
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It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.
Marianne Elliott -
I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.
Johann Lamont -
It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing we can do is confront that to help them navigate it. We can help them say, 'These things are happening. What does that mean for your life?'
Jason Reynolds -
Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
David Steinberg -
I don't get butterflies. I get a good feeling in my stomach before I compete. When I don't, I get worried.
Chloe Kim -
I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.
Frank Abagnale