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In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. -- Michael J. Fox
I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. -- Michael J. Fox
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world. -- Rosa DeLauro
You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well. -- Mehmet Oz
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke. -- Ike Skelton
You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. -- Michael J. Fox
Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God -- Muhammad Ali
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's. -- Muhammad Ali
Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things. -- Jilly Cooper
People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. -- Helen Mirren
Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. -- Anne Wojcicki
God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is. -- Muhammad Ali
Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. -- Michael J. Fox
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's. -- Mort Kondracke
I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not. -- Billy Graham
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers. -- Chris Kilham
I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven. -- Muhammad Ali
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy. -- Jerry Doyle
You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down. -- Linda Ronstadt
I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone. -- Michael J. Fox
Inflammation is the cornerstone of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis - all of the neurodegenerative diseases are really predicated on inflammation. -- David Perlmutter
My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all? -- Michael J. Fox
T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. -- Ronald Reagan
I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating. -- George H. W. Bush
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. -- Muhammad Ali
James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? -- Khaled Hosseini
I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon. -- Daniel Tosh
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Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified. -- David Perlmutter
Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer. -- Liz Miller
I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me. -- Linda Ronstadt
Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked. -- Linda Ronstadt
I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia. -- David H. Murdock
As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming. -- David Perlmutter
We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific. -- Peter Jackson
The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism. -- Helen Mirren
If you want to lower your risk of Parkinson's disease, caffeine is protective to some extent; nobody knows why. Head injuries are bad for you. They lead to Parkinson's disease. -- Gregory Petsko
The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism. -- Helen Mirren
As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it. -- Michael J. Fox
So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. -- Michael J. Fox
[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV -- Colin Blakemore
Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism. -- Feng Zhang
The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded. -- Michael J. Fox
As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life. -- Bill Maris
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged. -- Oliver Sacks
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. -- Nathan Deal
Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?' -- Helen Mirren
Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. -- Robert Lanza
I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them. -- Michael J. Fox
My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases. -- Shinya Yamanaka
Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought that if I worried about something enough, it wouldn't happen. I forgot to worry about Parkinson's. -- Tracy Pollan
As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while. -- Linda Ronstadt
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There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson's disease. -- Miguel Nicolelis
He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77. -- Lynn Redgrave
If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality. -- Michael J. Fox
I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center. -- Karen Finerman
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in. -- Michael J. Fox
The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way. -- Michael J. Fox
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway. -- Stephen Hawking
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country. -- Mario Testino
I think we all get our own bag of hammers. We all get our own Parkinson's. We all have our own thing. I think that we'll look at it through the filter of that experience, and we'll say, "Yeah, I need to laugh at my stuff, too." -- Michael J. Fox
Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category. -- Jamie Cullum
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Storms make trees take deeper roots. -- Dolly Parton
I was never crippled until I lost hope. -- Nick Vujicic
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. -- Lord Byron
Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. -- J. K. Rowling
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. -- Tim Hansel
The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style. -- Maya Angelou
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. -- C. S. Lewis
In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone. -- Brian Littrell
Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live? -- Karen Duffy
When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big. -- Michael J. Fox
I can't not have something attached to like what actually happens in real life. Like I can't do a romantic comedy without there being something where like, in the case of Annie Hathaway's character, her character ends up having Parkinson's, you know? To me, I feel like that's love, you know? Like to me. So every movie has to have that kind of sense of that. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated - have a reduction in Type 2 diabetes, or a reduced incidence of Type 2 diabetes, of about fifty percent. The same with Parkinson's, although there it is more related to the caffeine. -- Gregory Stock
By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don't look shocked - I wasn't the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T'Pau as my walk-on music. -- Miranda Hart

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