"Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while……" — 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."
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152 Quotes by Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox has 152 quotes on this site.
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I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's…
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When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial…
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They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking…
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No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong…
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My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo.
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With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you…
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There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to…
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Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are…
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Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.
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If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.
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Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.
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Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and…
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Unknown Author
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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