Michael J. Fox Quotes
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.
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I don't watch a lot of television.
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I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
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Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
