Frank Abagnale Quotes

Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.'

Frank Abagnale

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• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

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• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

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• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

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• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

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• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

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• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  

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• I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

  

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• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

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• My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

  

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• I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

  

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• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  

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• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  

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• I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

  

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• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

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• All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

  

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• I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

  

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• All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

  

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• The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.

  

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• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  

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• Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.'

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Death