"I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things."
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"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."
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"You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway."
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"Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that."
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"A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive."
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"All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information."
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"Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun."
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"We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio."
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"Disneyland is a show."
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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."
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"Frying pans! Who knew, right?"
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"Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others."
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"I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish."
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"Any dream is possible, if you have courage."
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"Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life."
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"There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how."
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"We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want."
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"Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job."
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"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal."
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"The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves."
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