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" It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again. "
Frank Abagnale
Start
Amazing
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" 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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" If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. "
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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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" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "
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" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "
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" I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks. "
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" Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life. "
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" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
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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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" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "
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" I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.' "
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" I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa. "
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" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "
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