Michael J. Fox Quotes - Page 2

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• Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you.

  Michael J. Fox

  Moving, Causes, Cause And Effect

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Swimming, Fighting

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• I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Levels, Infinite

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.

  Michael J. Fox

  Reality, People, Disease

  "Michael J. Fox Talks THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, How Much the Show Draws from Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen MTV’s TEEN WOLF, and More". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

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• The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Believe, Fall

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• 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

  Keys, Differences, Giving

  "The success stories of our times". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.rd.com.

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• If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

  Michael J. Fox

  Moving, Possibility, Something Better

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• When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

  Michael J. Fox

  Positive, Return, Given

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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.

  Michael J. Fox

  Honesty, Choices, Kind

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

  Michael J. Fox

  Leadership, Drinking, Discovery

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• If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

  Michael J. Fox

  Agents, Want, Made

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• There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.

  Michael J. Fox

  Character, Play, Acting

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Feel Good, Mind, Steps

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• There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

  Michael J. Fox

  Success, Acceptance, Ideas

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• Acceptance is the key to everything.

  Michael J. Fox

  Acceptance, Keys

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Graduation, Discipline

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, World, Sense Of Humor

  Interview with Amy Wallace, www.rd.com.

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• Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

  Michael J. Fox

  Life Is, Greater, I Can

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

  Michael J. Fox

  Ensemble, Tables, Dinner

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• Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cat, Curiosity, May

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• Pity is a benign form of abuse.

  Michael J. Fox

  Abuse, Pity, Form

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• Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

  Michael J. Fox

  Differences, Optimism, Parkinson's

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• My experience is to deal with things through humor.

  Michael J. Fox

  Deals

  "Michael J. Fox Mines His Parkinson's Disease for Laughs on New NBC Show" by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, people.com. August 13, 2013.

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• 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

  Disappointment, Loss, Secret

  "A Lesson In Life From Michael J. Fox". Interview, www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

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• 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

  Choices, Parkinson's, Millions

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