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Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Michael J. Fox Quotes

Canadian - Actor Born: June 9, 1961

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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

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

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, Loss

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, Great

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

Happiness, Acceptance

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 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, Choice

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

Discipline, Doing, Way

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, Action

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

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

Better, Judging, Off

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. Michael J. Fox

Challenge, Me, Husband

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

Dignity, Away, May

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, Face, Search

What other people think about me is not my business. Michael J. Fox

Business, Me, People

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

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. Michael J. Fox

Nature, Animals, Natural

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 mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. Michael J. Fox

Work, Thursday, Research

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

Humor, World, Think

Pity is a benign form of abuse. Michael J. Fox

Abuse, Pity, Form

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

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. Michael J. Fox

Parents, Brain, Risk

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

Father, Me, Husband

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, Parkinson, Within

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. Michael J. Fox

Truth, Challenge, Long

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