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'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Time

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

  

  Clare Balding
  • Up

• I'm not trying to take over the world, but I find it really rewarding to write, and I thrive on learning.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • World
  • Trying
  • Learning

• 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

• With all the... success that I've been lucky enough to get? That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Life
  • Home
  • Success

• 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

• I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Age

• One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.

  

  Angie Everhart

• I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Up
  • Reading

• Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Ideas
  • Easy
  • Execution

• 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