"Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun."
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"I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen."
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"I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education."
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"The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature."
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"There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests."
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"IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURAL WEALTH"
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"Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence."
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"People spend money when and where they feel good."
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"I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will."
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"A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face."
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"Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great."
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"I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do."
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"I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles."
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"I have a great love of animals and laughter."
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"I believe in being a motivator."
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"The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit."
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"The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them."
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"The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors."
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"Just remember, it all started with a mouse."
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"We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them."
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