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Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.

— Walt Disney Recorded statement (1938)

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All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him.

All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.

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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings.

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

EPCOT promotional film (1966)

Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

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