Walt Disney Quotes
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.
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I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
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In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
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God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it.
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I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
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Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP
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Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you.
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Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
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Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?
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I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.
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Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
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You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.
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Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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Just make sure you never do less than your best.