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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
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Frying pans! Who knew, right?
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The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.
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All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.
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The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.
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Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.
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The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.
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There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.
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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
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[Mickey Mouse] He 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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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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Laughter is America's most important export.
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I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
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Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.
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The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.
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We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
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Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.
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The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.
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My imagination creates my reality.
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I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.