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" I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time. "
Michael J. Fox
Time
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" If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time. "
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" Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it? "
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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 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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" I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world. "
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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 like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it. "
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Realize
Good
" 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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" Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. "
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" Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was. "
Michael J. Fox
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" If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it. "
Michael J. Fox
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" That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me. "
Michael J. Fox
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" After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. "
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" I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. "
Michael J. Fox
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World
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" I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. "
Michael J. Fox
Up
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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. "
Michael J. Fox
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Mind
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" I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made. "
Michael J. Fox
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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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" 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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Dying
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" My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. "
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Children
" In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. "
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" I definitely believe in a higher power. "
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Power
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" My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. "
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Acceptance
Expectations
" 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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Nature
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" What other people think about me is not my business. "
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Other
Think
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" I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name. "
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" The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'. "
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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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Dinner
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" I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me. "
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