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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

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Michael J. Fox
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.
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By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.
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Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.
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If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.
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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.
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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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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
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One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.
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By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
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My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.
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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.
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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
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Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
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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.
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I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.
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If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.
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