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" I learned early that class is universally admired. "
Frank Abagnale
Early
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" Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy. "
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" A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice. "
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" I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences. "
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" It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.' "
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" I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes. "
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" People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls. "
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" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
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" My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS. "
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Father
" When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.' "
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People
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" Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. "
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Year
Credit
" Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly. "
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Parents
Thought
Christmas
" Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people. "
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Security
People
" I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer. "
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True
You
" People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. "
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Life Is Short
Life
" If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. "
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Me
Bad
Been
" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "
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Always
Going
Up
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Number
Who
You
" I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that. "
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Need
Today
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" Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to. "
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Website
Always
Company
" Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it. "
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Older
Never
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Believe
Take