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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. "
Michael J. Fox
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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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" My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. "
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" The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded. "
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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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" I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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