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" By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts. "
Michael J. Fox
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Six
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" I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. "
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" My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me. "
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" I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me. "
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" What other people think about me is not my business. "
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" I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in. "
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" I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community. "
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" I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting. "
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" Pity is a benign form of abuse. "
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" I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. "
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" Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. "
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" When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. "
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" I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls. "
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" Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them. "
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" I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. "
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" I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. "
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" I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. "
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" The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. "
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" The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. "
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" Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was. "
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" As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it. "
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" Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. "
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" There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. "
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" I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life. "
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" The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am. "
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" I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party. "
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