Walt Disney Quotes
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The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
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My imagination creates my reality.
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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 past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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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 think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place...
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Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.
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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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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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Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.
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Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.
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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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To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.
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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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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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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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That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
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I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
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I believe in being an innovator.
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Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
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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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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 do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
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In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.