Frank Abagnale Quotes
Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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The great love of my life is music.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
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We all have our place in this diverse Spain.
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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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I'm an entrepreneur and a businesswoman and I do a lot of different things besides my work on television and people probably don't know that about me.
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One of my biggest influences of all time would be somebody like Tom Waits. David Bowie is another huge influence. I'm also a big fan of St. Vincent and Leslie Feist.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification.
