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" My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. "

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" When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. "

" The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting. "

" What other people think about me is not my business. "

" I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. "

" My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me. "

" 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. "

" I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy. "

" I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community. "

" Family is not an important thing. It's everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. "

" 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. "

" 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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" Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. "

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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. "

" I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. "

" I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. "

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" I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone. "

" The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. "