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Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

Michael J. Fox

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Michael J. Fox
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
Autobiographer
Blogger
Film Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Edmonton
Alberta
Michael Andrew Fox
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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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My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.
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When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
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Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.
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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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I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.
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If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.
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I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.
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After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
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There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate in American culture. You approach familiar things a different way you come at it from a different angle. It's a trait that runs through a lot Canadian artists' work and actors' work and musicians' - that kind of special remove.
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