Walt Disney Quotes

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. … All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

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• My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • Father
  • Law

• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • True
  • Something
  • Trivial

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • World
  • Movie
  • Smart

• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Country
  • Trying

• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Too Much

• And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • World
  • Different
  • Book

• I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.

  

  Polly Walker
  • Country
  • Son
  • Italian

• We have to evolve … I will make sure we keep what we’re good at. We’re renowned for our physicality. We have to be a bit smarter with where we want to use our physicality.

  

  Allister Coetzee
  • Use
  • Evolve
  • Physicality

• We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. … All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Moral