"To be brutally honest, for much of that……" — Michael J. Fox
"To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation."
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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 those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
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