"I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us."

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Mistake Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.”

Source : Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks
“[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.”
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
“Your gut is your inner compass.”
“The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?”
“My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.”
“A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.”
“Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.”

Source : Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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