Frank Abagnale Quotes
I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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Why young men from the country become firefighters is hard to explain to people who are not from the country. For most of us, it's not about the rush, which fades with time, or the paycheck. We could earn more working for the railroad or a car dealership. I figure it's about the land.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me.
