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

• I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Content

• 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

• I think it's refreshing when the people you're looking up to mess up just like you do, but somehow, things, in their own way, work out.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It seems to me that the real clue to your sex orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.

  

  Christopher Isherwood
  • Real
  • Fall
  • Sex

• I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Today

• I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Time

• 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