Walt Disney Quotes
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I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.
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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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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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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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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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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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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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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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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
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Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.
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Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
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Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
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Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.
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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
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The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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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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My imagination creates my reality.
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I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
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I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place...
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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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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
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I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.