Walt Disney Quotes
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If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.
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It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
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Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.
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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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That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
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Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.
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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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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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Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.
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Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.
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When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.
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While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.
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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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Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.
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Just remember, it all started with a mouse.
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When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.
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I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.
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I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
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Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.
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It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn't.
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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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Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
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Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.