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" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "
Frank Abagnale
Country
Repay
Greater
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" I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did. "
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Memories
Back
You
" I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will. "
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Believe
Will
" I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City. "
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New York
" You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way. "
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Go
Believe
Take
" Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. "
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Trying
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" I learned early that class is universally admired. "
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Early
Learned
Admired
" You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive. "
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Little
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" A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.' "
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Want
Good
" One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information. "
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Information
Me
Go
" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "
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Enough
Alone
Information
" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "
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Reconcile
Bank
Accounts
" There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card. "
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Cards
American
Appearance
" If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity. "
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Birth
You
Need
" Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret. "
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Know
Children
First
" I make my home in Tulsa. "
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Make
Home
" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "
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Young Man
Young
Man
" You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "
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Government
Police
Bank
" Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don't expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler. "
Frank Abagnale
Pilot
Airline
Expect
" 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
Victim
" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
Frank Abagnale
Woman
Today
Love
" I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. "
Frank Abagnale
Use
Money
Back
" Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent. "
Frank Abagnale
Innocent
Look
You
" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "
Frank Abagnale
Live
Crime
Enough
" Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life. "
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Life
Prison
People
" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "
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Lawyer
People
Death
" 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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Never
Problems
Father
" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "
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Seen
Years
Only
" By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce. "
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Time
Age
Day
" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "
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Prison
Years
Prisons
" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "
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Crime
Youth
Easier