Walt Quotes

• Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Uplifting, Mistake, Moving Forward

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• It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Leaves Of Grass, Grass, Discredit

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.44

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• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  Walt Whitman

  Forever, Vision, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

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• Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Ducks, Example

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• What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Dream, Moon, Men

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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• Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

  Langston Hughes

  Details, Findings, Seeking

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.100, Vintage

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• We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Past, Car

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

  John Green

  Mean, Guy, Sound

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• I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

  Walt Whitman

  Everyday, Dozen, Knows

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• The sign was spray-painted in Arabic and English, probably from some attempt by the farmer to sell his wares in the market. The English read: Dates-best price. Cold Bebsi. "Bebsi?" I asked. "Pepsi," Walt said. "I read about it on the Internet. There's no 'p' in Arabic. Everyone here calls the soda Bebsi." "So you have to have Bebsi with your bizza?" "Brobably.

  Rick Riordan

  Pepsi, Soda, Cold

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• I named my camel Katrina. She was a natural disaster. She slobbered everywhere and seemed to think the purple streak in my hair was some kind of exotic fruit. She was obsessed with trying to eat my head. I named Walt's camel Hindenburg. He was almost as large as a zeppelin and definitely as full of gas.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Hair, Purple

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.

  Eric Schlosser

  Mcdonalds, Ethos, Circles

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• I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one who got shafted on both deals was Walt.Poor guy gets hauled all over the world pulling us out of trouble

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, World, London

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• Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Nike, Games, Apples

  "How to Cash In on Your Passion". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

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• Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

  John Ralston Saul

  Children, Years, Promise

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

  Jack Paar

  Reality, Thinking, Should Have

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

  Annette Funicello

  Boyfriend, Father, Second Chance

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• Walt Disney was my great hero.

  Stanislav Grof

  Hero, Great Hero

  "Interviews With People Who Make A Difference : Frontiers Of The Mind". Interview with Daniel Redwood, www.healthy.net. 1995.

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• I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

  Keith Haring

  Grew Up, Grew, Wanted

  "New Again: Keith Haring". Interview with Andy Warhol, Emilia Petrarca, Halston, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

  Thomas Kinkade

  People, Matter, Common

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• Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

  John Lasseter

  Waiting, Tape, Saws

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• Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Beard

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• Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

  James MacArthur

  Sadness, Merchants

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• Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

  Tim Robbins

  Running, Men, Graves

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• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  J. D. Salinger

  Religious, Agony, People

  "Zooey (1957)". "Franny and Zooey". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1961.

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