"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."
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"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
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"People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working."
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"She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him."
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"When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born."
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"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end."
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"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."
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"Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature."
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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."
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"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
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"Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience."
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"I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action."
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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."
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"Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family."
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"The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual."
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"Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do."
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"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination."
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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"
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"If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life."
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"Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children."
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