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" I have a remarkably normal life. "
Michael J. Fox
Normal
Remarkably
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" One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. "
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" I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me. "
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" No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. "
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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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" Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul. "
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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've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. "
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" I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it. "
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" If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed. "
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" The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. "
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" My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. "
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" I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. "
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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 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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" Pity is just another form of abuse. "
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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 find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. "
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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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" Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. "
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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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" My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. "
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" I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. "
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" I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. "
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" I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party. "
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" I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. "
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" Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. "
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" When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. "
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