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" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Natural
Nature
Need
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" 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
" Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her. "
Michael J. Fox
Than
Help
Her
" My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. "
Michael J. Fox
Any
Best
View
" So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it. "
Michael J. Fox
Joy
Work
Life
" Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. "
Michael J. Fox
Big
Just
House
" I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in. "
Michael J. Fox
Freedom
Myself
Choice
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Angry
You
Point
" I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. "
Michael J. Fox
Ambition
Up
Hockey
" 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
" By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. "
Michael J. Fox
Acting
High
Time
" Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was. "
Michael J. Fox
Everybody
Knew
Before
" The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am. "
Michael J. Fox
More
Expect
Am
" I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. "
Michael J. Fox
Possibilities
See
Everything
" I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting. "
Michael J. Fox
Fight
Think
Look
" 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
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Risk
Off
Enough
" But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together. "
Michael J. Fox
Marriage
Together
Work
" I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party. "
Michael J. Fox
Party
Democratic
Democratic Party
" 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
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Mean
Understanding
Way
" I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. "
Michael J. Fox
Boy
Myself
Involved
" 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 discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone. "
Michael J. Fox
Experiences
Alone
Community
" I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education. "
Michael J. Fox
Up
Short
Always
" 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
" 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'. "
Michael J. Fox
You
Walk
Me
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Loss
Learning
Disappointment
" 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
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Any
Opportunities
Look