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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards-the things we live by and teach our children-are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

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Because the eye is the most sensitive and dependable of our sense organs, the motion picture offers the widest, direct avenue to out emotions. Whereas the still picture can suggest only a fragment of fact of fiction, the cartoon-in-motion is without limit in communicating ideas, events and human relations

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The motion picture has become a necessity of life, a part of our balanced existence. It is not negligible luxury. People are always going to demand and enjoy movies in the theater. Perhaps not as exclusively as they did when public amusements were more limited. Patronage will depend more than ever upon what we put on the screen. And especially on how well we understand the needs and desires of our youngest customers. For their favor we must compete as never before.

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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the real of entertainment toward the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

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Nothing in a lifetime of picture making has been more exciting and personally satisfactory than delving into the wonders, the mysteries, the magnificent commonplaces of life around us and passing them on via the screen.

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main...and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life

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Physical America-the land itself-should be as dear to us all as our political heritage and our treasured way of life. Its preservation and the wise conservation of its renewable resources concerns every man, woman, and child whose possession it is.

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To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believable personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is till and always will be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

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Films stimulate children to read books on many subjects

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More than any other medium, the motion picture is being challenged to meet the greatly enlarged opportunities and responsibilities of modern showmanship

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The motion picture will never fully replace the printed word, but it will go a long way in becoming its most valuable adjunct. There seems little question that the human mind will absorb picturized information much quicker by means of the printed word

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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 drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men

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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 here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world

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A man should never neglect his family for business

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

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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my trouble and obstacles have strengthened me

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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 come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

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A child is helpless in choosing what is to be engraved on his mind during the formative years. The awesome responsibility is assumed, for better or worse, by us adults. Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is the plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility; and there is no reason, except sloth and cowardice, why we should.

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Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.

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Why do animals dominate animated cartoons? Because their reaction to any kind of stimulus is expressed physically. Often the entire body comes into play. Take a joyful dog. His tail wags, his torso wiggles, his ear flap. He may greet you by jumping on your lap or by making the circuit of the room, not missing a chair or a divan. He keeps barking, and that's a form of physical expression, too; he stretches his big mouth. But how does a human being react to a stimulus? He's lost the sense of play he once had and he inhibits physical expression. He is the victim of a civilization whose ideal is the unbotherable, poker- faced man and the attractive, unruffled woman. Even the gestures get to be calculated. They call it poise. The spontaneity of the animal- you find it in small children, but it's gradually trained out of them

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I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

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I like symphonic music. A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to the music.

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

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Direct and easy communications-freedom of speech in all forms and its broadest sense-has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

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It is the source of public information and what we say to these massive receptive audiences which pose the problems and the challenges of our time.

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Television began to move and I began to think about it. I talked to a lot of these television executives and they said, "What are you going to do? If you go on television what are you going to do? I said, "I don't know. I presume I'll do what I've been doing all my life.: They said,"Well, television is different, you've got to do something different." I said, "Well, I know, but I don't think that the audience is any different."

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As I see it, a person's culture represents his appraisal of the things that make up his life. And a fellow becomes cultured, I believe, by selecting that which is fine and beautiful in life and throwing aside that which is mediocre or phony. Sort of a series of free, very personal choices, you might say. If this is true, then I think it follows that 'freedom' is the most precious word to culture. Freedom to believe what you choose and read, think, and say and be with what you choose. In America, we are guaranteed these freedoms. It is the constitutional privilege of ever American to become cultured or to grow up like Donald Duck. I believe that this spiritual and intellectual freedom with we Americans enjoy is our greatest cultural blessing. Therefore, it seems to me, that the first duty of culture is to defend freedom and resist all tyranny.

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I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.

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I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

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There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out! Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into others fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

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Movies are a medium of expression, say, like a symphony orchestra. Or like a painter's brush and canvas. The brush and canvas have been creating and presenting pictures for hundreds of years, but I haven't heard anyone say that painting was old-fashioned and have reached its limits. It's the painter-the moviemaker- the artist and the entertainer who have to be considered- not the tools of their trade. Like painting or music, it's the ideas and the material that get onto the screen that's important. Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world... and there's never been any sign that creative people are disappearing from the world of entertainment. What is needed in addition to the creative ability is courage- courage to try new things, to satisfy the endless curiosity of people for information about the world around them. Movies became popular because they found new forms, created new sensations, and explored new fields of popular appeal.

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

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Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy, and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all over, implicitly and unquestioningly.

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In order to make good in your chosen task, it's important to have someone you want to do it for. The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements but rather with the things we do for the people we love and esteem, and whose respect we need.

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Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

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Deeds, rather than words, express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.

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Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better. I worry about many things, but not about water over the dam.

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