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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.
Michael J. Fox
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Michael J. Fox
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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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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When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.
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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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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'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.
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Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.
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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 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.
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I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.
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I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.
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When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
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Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.
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In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
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My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.
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You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.
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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.
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