Frank Abagnale Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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From the moment I got to Hollywood, I've always felt like I never really got to do what I wanted to do. In general, artists feel that you're never really allowed to accomplish what you would like to accomplish because there's just so much of this system that gets in the way; the business gets in the way of the art.
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.
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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.
