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I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Michael J. Fox

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Michael J. Fox
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
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Blogger
Film Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Edmonton
Alberta
Michael Andrew Fox
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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 have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.
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Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.
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If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.
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If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.
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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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In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
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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.
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I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.
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If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.
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Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.
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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.
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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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I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to 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 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've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.
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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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