Walt Disney Quotes
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
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Its fun to do the unexpected.
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I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.
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I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.
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I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.
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Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
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Any dream is possible, if you have courage.
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Just remember, it all started with a mouse.
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I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.
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Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
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Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.
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At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.
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Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.
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All of our dreams can come true...
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Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
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Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.
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All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
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I have a great love of animals and laughter.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
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Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.
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If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.
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We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.
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I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.
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Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don't want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public. We invest them with life a caricature of life.