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" I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. "

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" You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. "

" We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. "

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

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

" All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. "

" If you can dream it, you can do it. "

" 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. "

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

" I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. "

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

" We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. "

" Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. "

" Laughter is America's most important export. "

" 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. "

" I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. "

" Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. "

" When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. "

" Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. "

" 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. "

" I believe in being an innovator. "

" It's kind of fun to do the impossible. "

" Disneyland is a show. "

" I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities. "

" I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. "

" Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. "

" Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. "