Michael Fox quotes

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. (Michael Fox)
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. View quote
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Family is not an important thing, it's everything. View quote
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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. View quote
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The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. View quote
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What other people think about me is not my business. View quote
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Our challenges don't define us, our actions do. View quote
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Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Liveto learn. View quote
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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. View quote
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The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am. View quote
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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 Fox)
Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. View quote
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If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today. View quote
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Optimism is a cure for many things. View quote
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When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return. View quote
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A creative mess is better than idle tidiness. View quote
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Happiness is a decision. View quote
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I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best. View quote
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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. View quote
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You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake. View quote
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I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made. (Michael Fox)
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. View quote
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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. View quote
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You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. View quote
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I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls. View quote
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