Walt Disney Quotes
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The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.
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We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.
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No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.
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Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.
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I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.
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No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
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Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.
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All of our dreams can come true...
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A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
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She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
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Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.
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It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.
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I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
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A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.
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All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
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The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
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I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
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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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Ideas come from curiosity.
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You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!