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Disneyland Quotes by Walt Disney

41 Disneyland quotes by Walt Disney

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Walt Disney imagined Disneyland as a living playground of imagination and dreams. He said it will never be finished, growing as long as people keep dreaming, and that workers should create and have fun rather than chase a dollar. He also wanted a place unlike any other, full of color, nostalgia, and even a train winding through it.

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Disneyland is a work of love.

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Disneyland is a show.

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I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place.

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We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

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Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.

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

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Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

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Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

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Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

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Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

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The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

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Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a…

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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…

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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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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.

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It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.

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Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America.

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Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind…

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Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing…

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I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place — a place where adults and children…

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Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe…

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Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make…

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Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold…

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Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the…

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When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so…

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I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no…

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To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and…

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Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't…

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The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.

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Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

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I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel…

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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…

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

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It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.

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I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.

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Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape…

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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…

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Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen…

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Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the…

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Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia,…

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If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

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Steve Martin 2
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