Michael J. Fox quote: "I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities."

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
MICHAEL J. FOX

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and th...
MICHAEL J. FOX

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human bei...
MICHAEL J. FOX

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

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to chang...
MICHAEL J. FOX

The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you'...
MICHAEL J. FOX

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
MICHAEL J. FOX

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectatio...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and the...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding t...
MICHAEL J. FOX

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every nigh...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.
MICHAEL J. FOX

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I...
MICHAEL J. FOX

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural ha...
MICHAEL J. FOX

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for t...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is Go...
MICHAEL J. FOX

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in th...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and tha...
MICHAEL J. FOX

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or wh...
MICHAEL J. FOX

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

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.
MICHAEL J. FOX

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

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is G...
MICHAEL J. FOX

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

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Vo...
MICHAEL J. FOX

If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long a...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student o...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy...
MICHAEL J. FOX

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's ju...
MICHAEL J. FOX

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

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
MICHAEL J. FOX

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan...
MICHAEL J. FOX

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless i...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Pity is a benign form of abuse.
MICHAEL J. FOX

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
MICHAEL J. FOX

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient...
MICHAEL J. FOX

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going...
MICHAEL J. FOX

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a te...
MICHAEL J. FOX

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

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is...
MICHAEL J FOX

If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those f...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.
MICHAEL J. FOX

There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end...
MICHAEL J. FOX

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act...
MICHAEL J. FOX

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I j...
MICHAEL J. FOX

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken way unless it is ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, s...
MICHAEL J. FOX

The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute'...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that...
MICHAEL J. FOX

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television...
MICHAEL J. FOX

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting a...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes...
MICHAEL J. FOX

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying a...
MICHAEL J. FOX

This is heavy, Doc.
MICHAEL J. FOX

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
MICHAEL J. FOX

What other people think about me is not my business.
MICHAEL J. FOX

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j...
MICHAEL J. FOX

If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor...
MICHAEL J. FOX

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.
MICHAEL J. FOX

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an...
MICHAEL J. FOX

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had...
MICHAEL J. FOX

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.
MICHAEL J. FOX

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

This isn't some strange kind of exotic thing that's difficult to understand where we have no markers...
MICHAEL J. FOX

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow peop...
MICHAEL J. FOX

If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, y...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accep...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don'...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everythin...
MICHAEL J. FOX

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinkin...
MICHAEL J. FOX

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I didn't want to do a Family Ties type show. It never really represented my outlook and my sense of ...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I heard from thousands of PD patients and their families about their daily struggles, their frustrat...
MICHAEL J. FOX

Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a ga...
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Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a...
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't t...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and danc...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by o...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothi...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man runnin...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually d...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an ...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP

My life in science has been rich and rewarding. I have sacrificed very little.
J. MICHAEL BISHOP

During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who car...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP

Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teachin...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP

In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engend...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what al...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a de...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personalit...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own r...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they h...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the a...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO

Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favo...
MICHAEL J. ANDERSON

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multipl...
MICHAEL J. BEHE

That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't mat...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Touch passion when it comes your way...It
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development...
MICHAEL J. GELB

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pas...
MICHAEL J. GELB

Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.
MICHAEL J. MCCARTHY

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot acco...
MICHAEL J. MCCARTHY

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
MICHAEL J. GELB

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no gre...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted i...
MICHAEL J. TUCKER

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is wh...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR

We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a di...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other all...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can se...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO

I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
J. MICHAEL BISHOP

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not be...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we belie...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, i...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP

When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, st...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United S...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, o...
MICHAEL J. COHEN

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.
MICHAEL J. COHEN

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any a...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP

Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's pos...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What mak...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others......
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can mak...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological current...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interes...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd ...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an opt...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in s...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO

Nothing's the same anymore.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

All love is unrequited. All of it.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

As things unravel, it's a larger conspiracy, so basically after the second year ? the show you think...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. Th...
MICHAEL J. GELB

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order excee...
MICHAEL J. GELB

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.
MICHAEL J. GELB

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriousl...
MICHAEL J. GELB

I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your hea...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by other...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion
MICHAEL J. TUCKER

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and...
MICHAEL J. COHEN

I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

[T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu...
MICHAEL J. SANDEL

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin...
MICHAEL J. SANDEL

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemica...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO

The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix...
MICHAEL J. COHEN

They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, t...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel...
MICHAEL J. BEHE

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl...
J. MICHAEL BREWER

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE

The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula...
MICHAEL J. BEHE

Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc...
MICHAEL J. BEHE

The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or...
MICHAEL J. BEHE

Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE

There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm.
“Yes, I see it, but—”
�...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.

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