Walt Disney Quotes
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
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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 think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.
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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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Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.
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I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
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I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.
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The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.
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Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.
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The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
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Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
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Laughter is America's most important export.
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I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.
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Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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Disneyland is a show.
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You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
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Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.