Michael J. Fox Quotes

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox

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• Gods
• Perfection
• Excellence
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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.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Never
  • Cook
  • Eggs

• 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.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Relationships
  • Carry
  • Ending

• I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Working
  • Strength
  • Give

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Want
  • You
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Belief
  • Hug
  • Tongue

• 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.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Day
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Man
  • Model

• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Father
  • Game
  • Gambling

• My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hair
  • Moment
  • Reflection

• 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.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Respect
  • Comedy
  • Always

• The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done

• I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Space
  • Style
  • Environment

• I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.

  

  Alice Waters

• I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Fun
  • Beginning

• The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Business
  • Small
  • Government

• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

  

  Michael J. Fox
  • Business
  • Gods
  • Perfection