Walt Disney - Disneyland Quotes

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Of Disneyland:
The park means a lot to me in that it's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing, keep plussing and adding to—it's alive. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need changes. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. [..] I can't change that picture, so that's why I wanted that park.

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Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland — the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.

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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into it with just the idea of making money.

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

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When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point — mine wouldn't be.

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Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.

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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

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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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I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place — a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.

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We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

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I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

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