Michael J. Fox Quotes

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

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What other people think of me is not my business.

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Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.

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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.

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When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

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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.

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The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

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I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.

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The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

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Family is not an important thing, it's everything.

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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

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