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Michael J. Fox Quotes
Michael J. Fox
Canadian
Actor
Born:
Jun 9
,
1961
Good
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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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
Acceptance
Understanding
Way
Something
Through
Got
Mean
Means
Resignation
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
Happiness
Acceptance
Direct
Inverse
Proportion
Expectations
Grows
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
Failure
Disappointment
Learning
Secret
Those
None
Always
Loss
Holes
Realizing
I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
Michael J. Fox
Sense Of Humor
World
Humor
Sense
Think
Scariest
No Sense
Person
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
Michael J. Fox
Time
Great
Science
Progress
Resources
Prevention
Great Progress
Occur
Proven
Provided
Cure
Disease
Again
Medical
Treatment
I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.
Michael J. Fox
Words
Remember
Walk
Walls
Somebody
Name
Times
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox
God
Business
Confuse
Excellence
Perfection
Reach
Am
Careful
I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
Michael J. Fox
Other
Say
Parkinson
Make
Surrounding
Any
Often
Whether
Choice
Choices
Now
Million
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
Michael J. Fox
Unhappy
More
Accept
Am
Expect
Going
Serene
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.
Michael J. Fox
Positive
Good
People
Action
Like
Encourage
Proactive
Any
Intent
Behind
Good Action
Realize
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. Fox
Dignity
Unless
Taken
Mocked
May
Cannot
Assaulted
Away
Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.
Michael J. Fox
Life
Me
Soul
Delivered
Catastrophe
Richness
Found
Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.
Michael J. Fox
Discipline
Same Thing
Way
Right Way
Doing
Same
Just
Anyone
Whether
Right
Thing
Watching
The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
Michael J. Fox
Better
Better Off
Judging
Least
Off
Amount
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
Myself
Freedom
Nothing
Otherwise
Those
No Choice
About
Area
Parkinson
React
How
Lot
Whether
Choice
Choices
Found
Things
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
Michael J. Fox
Value
Everything
Possibilities
Has-Been
See
Something
Given
Taken
Greater
Been
Away
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
Lose
Lost
Point
Know
Because
Smug
Any
Anything
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.
Michael J. Fox
Good
You
Try
Humility
Circumstances
Good Thing
Sincere
Come
Deal
Always
Place
Them
Then
Thing
Humbled
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
Change
Looking
Research
Way
One Thing
Could
Parkinson
Like
Understood
Going
The One Thing
Moment
Thing
Things
Started
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
Michael J. Fox
Good
Together
People
Dinner
Every
Ensemble
Dinner Table
Table
New
Got
Lot
Five
Same
Six
Form
Theater
Worked
Show
Oldest
Players
Every Night
Night
As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.
Michael J. Fox
Stage
Unable
About
More
Parkinson
Stuck
Within
Reverse
End
Movement
Being
Frozen
Happen
Gonna
Much
I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.
Michael J. Fox
Work
People
Will
Half
Few
Research
Enjoy
Every
Kind
TV
Through
Thursday
Supporting
Hour
Make
Make A Difference
Advocacy
Privilege
Than
Get
Few People
Difference
Being
Bigger
Mean
Certainly
Actor
Lives
What other people think about me is not my business.
Michael J. Fox
Me
Business
People
Think
Other
About
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
Work
Together
Marriage
Key
Differences
Other
Our
Give
Similarities
How
Break
Capacity
Work Together
Realize
Each
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
Happiness
Work
Love
Family
Opportunity
Alive
Being
Really
Things
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
Nature
Natural
Habitat
Animals
Caricatures
Once
Would
Pursued
Toward
Perhaps
Policies
Becoming
How
Were
Right
Zoo
Need
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