Michael J. Fox Quotes About Drinking

Quotes about: Drinking

• People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

  Michael J. Fox

  Leadership, Drinking, Discovery

• It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

  Michael J. Fox

  Drinking, Destiny, Hands

• I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

  Michael J. Fox

  Drinking, Thinking, Able

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.187, Random House

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