Michael J. Fox Quotes - Page 3

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• That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Worst Case Scenario, Focus, Sound

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• I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Live Life, Sadness, Joy

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• You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

  Michael J. Fox

  Blow, Opportunity, Suffering

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• It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

  Michael J. Fox

  Drinking, Destiny, Hands

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• My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

  Michael J. Fox

  Views, Life Is, Situation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

  Michael J. Fox

  Acceptance, Thinking, Expectations

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

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• The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

  Michael J. Fox

  Opportunity, Deserve

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• When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.

  Michael J. Fox

  Dream, Doctors, Differences

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• I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

  Michael J. Fox

  Regret, Thinking, Way

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

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• I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?"

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Sick, Mind

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

  Michael J. Fox

  Time, Moving, Appreciate

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Humility, Practice

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

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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.

  Michael J. Fox

  Real, Humility, Vanity

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

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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

  Opportunity, Love Is, I Love My Family

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• The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say 'thank you', but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cute, Mean Girls, Thank You

  "Michael J. Fox: A Biography". Book by Alex Tresniowski, 2000.

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• I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

  Michael J. Fox

  Eye, Patient, Parkinson's

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• The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Humble, Humility

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

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• I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day - it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.

  Michael J. Fox

  Morning, Order, Weather

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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

  Life, Want, Life Is

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

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• The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Giving, Stories, Consolation

  "Always Looking Up". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. September 2008.

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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.

  Michael J. Fox

  Couple, Hard Times, People

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• With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting you until it happens. There's all kinds of room in that space.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Shoes, Space

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

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• Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, 'what are you smiling about?' But I already know the answer: 'It just gets better from here.'

  Michael J. Fox

  Glasses, Self, Expression

  "Always Looking Up". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. September 2008.

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• If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Discipline, Would Be

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• I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

  Michael J. Fox

  Community, Parkinson's, Parkinson

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