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" I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it. "
Michael J. Fox
People
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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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" I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education. "
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" Family is not an important thing. It's everything. "
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" Pain is temporary, film is forever. "
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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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" So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. "
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" In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. "
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" If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality. "
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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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" I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community. "
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" Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. "
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" Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. "
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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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" I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. "
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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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" No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. "
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" I definitely believe in a higher power. "
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" Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal. "
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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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" Pity is just another form of abuse. "
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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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" You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. "
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" My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. "
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" I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. "
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" I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. "
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" I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested. "
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" Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. "
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