Walt Disney Quotes
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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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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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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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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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I believe that laughter is our greatest export.
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I believe in being a motivator.
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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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I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.
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That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
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Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
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I believe in being an innovator.
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I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.
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If it can be dreamed, it can be done.
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Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.
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In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
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Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.
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Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.
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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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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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Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.
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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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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.
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When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.