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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Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.
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We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.
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Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.
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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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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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All of our dreams can come true...
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Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.
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You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!
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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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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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Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
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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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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
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I have a great love of animals and laughter.
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The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.
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Ideas come from curiosity.
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Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.
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I never intended to make art.
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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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Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.
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We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.