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" No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. "

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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. "

" By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts. "

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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. "

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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. "

" Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you. "

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" I have a remarkably normal life. "

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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 see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. "

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