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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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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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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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The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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Just make sure you never do less than your best.
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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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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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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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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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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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I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
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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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You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
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They say I'm a conservative, but I consider myself I true liberal.
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The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.