Frank Abagnale Quotes
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.
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Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.
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It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.
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I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.
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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
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When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.
