Walt Disney Quotes - Page 12

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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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  Daughter, Children, Fun

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• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

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  Thinking, People, Checks

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• I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.

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  Real, Design, Development

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• All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

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  Life, Character, Exaggeration Is

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• Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

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  Animal, People, Personality

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• Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education.

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  Believe, Fields, Entertainment

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• I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

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  Dream, Business, Littles

  "The Stuff Americans Are Made Of : The Seven Cultural Forces that Define Americans - A New Framework for Quality, Productivity, and Profitability". Book by Joshua Hammond and James Morrison, 1996.

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• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

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  Life, Art, Entertainment

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• I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

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  Cartoon, Puppets, Littles

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• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

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  Mean, Independence, Minnie Mouse

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

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  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

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  Laughter, Personality, Purpose

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

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  Love, Funny, Witty

  Quoted inWalterWagner, You Must Remember This (1975)

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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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  Dog, Couple, Giving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

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  Emotional, Listening, Kind

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• Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

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  Engineering, Done, Economic

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• Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.

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  Children, Believe, Talking

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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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  Cute, Children, Animal

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.

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  Moving, Ideas, Long

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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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  Selfish, Achievement, Moments

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• Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

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  Fun, Dollars, Amusement Parks

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• Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

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  Growing Up, Believe, Getting Old

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• Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

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  Appearance, Fooled, Commonplace

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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

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  Daughter, Football, Games

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• I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.

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  Thinking, Benefits

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