Walt Disney Quotes
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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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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.
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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 have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
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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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Frying pans! Who knew, right?
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Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don't want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public. We invest them with life a caricature of life.
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We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.
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It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.
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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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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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We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
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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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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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The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.
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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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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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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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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
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Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
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Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.
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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.