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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. "
Michael J. Fox
Time
Great
Science
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" I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence. "
Michael J. Fox
Think
Existence
Good
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Challenge
Say
Husband
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Words
You
Thinking
" 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
Short
Discipline
Hell
" No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. "
Michael J. Fox
You
Much
How
" I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. "
Michael J. Fox
Us
Power
Know
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Hands
Because
Up
" 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
Nature
Me
Life
" I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary. "
Michael J. Fox
Live
Life
Humility
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Know
Kind
Chance
" I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. "
Michael J. Fox
Irony
Man
Old Man
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
You
Stand
Star
" I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. "
Michael J. Fox
Reach
Business
Excellence
" My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. "
Michael J. Fox
Any
Best
View
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Way
Goals
Go
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Challenge
Know
Truth
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Enjoy
People
Work
" Pain is temporary, film is forever. "
Michael J. Fox
Forever
Film
Temporary
" In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. "
Michael J. Fox
Better Person
Fact
Me
" 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
Realize
Good
" I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party. "
Michael J. Fox
Party
Democratic
Democratic Party
" No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite. "
Michael J. Fox
Learning
Love
Reading
" You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. "
Michael J. Fox
Nice
Me
Him
" I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community. "
Michael J. Fox
Part
Community
Leader
" The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me. "
Michael J. Fox
Character
People
Angry
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Kid
Little
More
" What other people think about me is not my business. "
Michael J. Fox
Other
Think
People
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Choice
Choices
I Can
" Pity is a benign form of abuse. "
Michael J. Fox
Abuse
Form
Benign
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Dinner
Together
People