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

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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.

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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse

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A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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

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I believe in being an innovator.

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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.

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

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

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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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If you can dream it, you can do it.

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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 in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

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Laughter is America's most important export.

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

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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

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

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

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If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse



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