Walt Disney Quotes
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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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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very 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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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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All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
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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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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
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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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Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.
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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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I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
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The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
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I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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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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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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Laughter is America's most important export.
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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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Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.
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My imagination creates my reality.
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Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
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Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.
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I believe in being a motivator.