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By nature, I’m an experimenter. So with the success of Mickey, I was determined to diversify. I had another idea that was plaguing my brain.

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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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Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

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

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

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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 and revamp.

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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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