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Walt Disney talks about keeping a childlike spirit and not caring about what others think. He says a movie succeeds because many people work together, from story to final release. He believes doing something so well makes people want to see it again and bring friends along.

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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

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To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

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Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you

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People spend money when and where they feel good.

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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up

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You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

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Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

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My business is making people, especially children, happy.

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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere…

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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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All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I…

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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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There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am…

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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

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

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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested…

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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…

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What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to…

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Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember…

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The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people…

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I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive…

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No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the…

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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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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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People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have…

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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…

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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

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The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing…

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To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come…

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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is…

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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…

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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…

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You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the…

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My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of…

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I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I…

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I have no use for people who throw there weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because…

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People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just…

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To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some…

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I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

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Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who…

Who says we have to grow up?

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If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

“To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity”

Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then…

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