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Family is not an important thing. It's everything. - Michael J. Fox

Family is not an important thing. It's everything. Michael J. Fox

Family, Important, Everything, Thing

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, Mean

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

Learning, Failure, Disappointment, Loss

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox

Happiness, Acceptance, Expectations

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. Michael J. Fox

Better, Judging, Off, Better Off, Least

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am. Michael J. Fox

I Am, Unhappy, Accept, More, Going, Am

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Michael J. Fox

Business, God, Excellence, I Am, Reach

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. Michael J. Fox

Dignity, Away, Taken, Cannot, May

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, Science, Progress, Great, Medical

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, Choice, I Can, Now, Say, Other

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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. Michael J. Fox

Positive, Good, People, Action, Realize

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. Michael J. Fox

Humor, World, Think, Sense Of Humor

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

Walk, Cute, Thank You, Me, Laugh, You

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. Michael J. Fox

Walk, Apple, Short, Stand, You, Star

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

Focus, Me, Look, You, Worst, Way

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. Michael J. Fox

Funny, Morning, Woman, Sunday, Up, Going

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

Freedom, Myself, Choices, Choice, React

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

End, Movement, Stage, Within, More, Much

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Michael J. Fox

Always, Younger, Happy-Go-Lucky

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. Michael J. Fox

Growing Up, Ambition, Hockey, Acting, Up

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. Michael J. Fox

Value, Possibilities, See, I See, Away

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul. Michael J. Fox

Life, Soul, Me, Found, Richness

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. Michael J. Fox

People, Search, Church, Face, Feeling

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. Michael J. Fox

Father, Me, Husband, Better Person, Fact

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, Humility, Place, Circumstances

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

Life, Best, Humor, Looking, View, Any

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