Walt Disney Quotes
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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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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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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 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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Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.
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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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Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
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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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The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
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A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.
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Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.
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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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That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
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The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.
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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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The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
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If it can be dreamed, it can be done.
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In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
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We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.
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I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
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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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To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.