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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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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When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
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Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.
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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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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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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. In this new dimension, whatever it is, nothing corrodes or gets run down at the heel or gets to look ridiculous like, say, the celluloid collar or the bustle.
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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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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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Laughter is America's most important export.
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Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
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In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
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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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Frying pans! Who knew, right?
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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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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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The most exciting and, by far, the most important part of our Florida project, in fact, the heart of everything well be doing in Disney World, will be our experimental prototype city of tomorrow. We call it EPCOT.
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Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.
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I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.
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I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.
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Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.
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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.