Frank W. Abagnale Quotes

#1. in my four months of legal cramming I'd learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox

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#2. during the first two interrogative sessions. Either I refused to answer or I would reply

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#3. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, is the most respected, and probably the largest, commercial flight-training school in the nation, I was informed. It's the Notre Dame of the air.

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#4. A MAN'S ALTER EGO is nothing more than his favorite image of himself.

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#5. nothing more than his favorite image of himself. The mirror in my room in the Windsor Hotel in Paris reflected my favorite image of me - a darkly handsome young airline pilot, smooth-skinned, bull-shouldered and immaculately groomed. Modesty is not one of my virtues.

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#6. The second is observation. Observation is a skill that can be developed, but I was born blessed (or cursed) with the ability to pick up on details and items the average man overlooks.

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#7. Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.

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#8. A con artist's only weapon is his brain.

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#9. Of course, as someone once observed, there is no right way to do something wrong,

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#10. Former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification.

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