Disneyland Quotes - Page 2

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

  Walt Disney

  Fun, Dollars, Amusement Parks

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• Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Children, Growing Up

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• When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

  Walt Disney

  Organization, People, Realizing

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• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

  Walt Disney

  Love, Money, Magic Kingdom

  "The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

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• Disneyland is a show.

  Walt Disney

  Reality, Shows

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• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  Walt Disney

  Years, People, Would Be

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• Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...

  Walt Disney

  Dream, America, Facts

  YouTube Chanel "freedogshampoo"/ "Disneyland Opening Day - Part 2", www.youtube.com. April 17, 2007.

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

  Walt Disney

  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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• The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

  John Hench

  Fighting, Artist, Color

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• Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

  Merv Griffin

  Vegas, Newton, Wayne

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• Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years - or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first.

  Jay Leno

  Space, Years, Mountain

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• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, Growth, Goes On

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• It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

  Walt Disney

  Unique, People, Secret

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• Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Success, People

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• The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

  Marvin Olasky

  Land, Serious, Holy

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• Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

  Walt Disney

  Kings, President, Want

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• Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.

  Walt Disney

  Fun, Adventure, Family And Friends

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• I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

  Anjelica Huston

  Niece, Car, People

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• The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

  John Hench

  Children, Artist, Reality

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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.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Rides of Passage". "Via" magazine, July 2005.

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• Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Santa Barbara, Paradise, May

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

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• Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland

  Walt Disney

  Years, Ideas, Today

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.

  John Piper

  Live Life, Sacrifice, America

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• I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.

  Walt Disney

  Looks, World, Want

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• I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

  Steve Cropper

  Months, Hospitality, Hotel

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