Walt Disney Quotes
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If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
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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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Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!
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We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.
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Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?
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There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.
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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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I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.
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Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
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Happiness is a state of mind.
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My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.
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Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
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To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.
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I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.
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Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
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I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
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The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
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Disneyland is a show.