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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

Thought

Financial

Knowledge

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

" Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. "

" Disneyland is a show. "

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" When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. "

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

" Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role. "

" You can't just let nature run wild. "

" We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. "

" 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. "

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

" I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. "

" There's nothing funnier than the human animal. "

" We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. "

" I believe in being an innovator. "

" 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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Work

Goal

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

" I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things. "

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

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Mickey Mouse

End

" The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. "

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

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

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Woman

Mickey Mouse

" 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. "

" The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. "

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Yourself

You

" 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. "

" Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. "

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

" You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. "

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

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Dead

Only