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I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. (Michael Fox)
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. View quote
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Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you. View quote
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The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. View quote
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I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. View quote
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By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. View quote
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By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts. View quote
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I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education. View quote
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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. View quote
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I definitely believe in a higher power. View quote
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I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party. (Michael Fox)
I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. View quote
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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. View quote
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Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. View quote
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Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her. View quote
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I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community. View quote
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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. View quote
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Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. (Michael Fox)
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. View quote
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Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. View quote
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My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. View quote
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When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. View quote
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