Frank Abagnale Quotes

I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies.

Frank Abagnale

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• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • America
  • Military
  • Financial

• One who is persistent will excel.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Will
  • Persistent
  • Excel

• Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Design
  • Inspired
  • Difference

• Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Genius

• I hyper-analyze everything; I'm always in my head. Those moments where you don't think and you're just part of the environment did not come easily to me, but it was those moments and highs that I chased.

  

  Verite
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Environment

• I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Pizza

• Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.1

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

  

  Leymah Gbowee
  • War
  • Community

• It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• It might be lonely up here but I sure like the view.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Up
  • Lonely

• I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Up

• Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Money
  • Value

• Democrats did not lose control of the Senate because African Americans did not vote. Actually, as supported by preliminary exit poll data, the complete opposite is the case. African Americans increased as a proportion of the electorate in 2014 over 2010.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Control

• In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

  

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • Romantic
  • Mood

• The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

  

  Marc Davis
  • Art
  • City
  • Training

• There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • People
  • Emotional

• The more emotion I put in to it the harder I rock.

  

  Omar Credle
  • Rock

• Mystery, speaking through mysteries. Insn't that meaning? Isn't that the conscious or unconsciousnes purpose of the compulsive urge to create?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Purpose

• My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Films

• On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Hand
  • Bird

• There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness - turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within - help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we're really doing something, we're doing something that brings that light of unity.'

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Up
  • World
  • Help

• I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies.

  

  Frank Abagnale