Mickey Quotes - Page 2

[Mickey Mouse] He 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.

Walt Disney

Brother, Business, Years

"A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

Joseph Barbera

Stars, Real, Character

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

John Hench

Artist, Names, Example

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I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

Richard Branson

Success, Business, Feelings

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Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

Annette Funicello

Sister, Guests, Clubs

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Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

Harvey Keitel

Needs, Worthwhile, Certain

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The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.

Walt Disney

Attachment, Should Have, World

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Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

Merv Griffin

Vegas, Newton, Wayne

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I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

Annette Funicello

Clubs, Mice, Stills

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Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

John Hench

Children, Wall, Talking

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My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

Annette Funicello

Heart, Soul, Clubs

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Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

Annette Funicello

Crush, Children, Clubs

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I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

Robbie Keane

Player, Joy, Might

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Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Annette Funicello

Fame, Claims, Mice

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

Walt Disney

Love, Funny, Witty

Quoted inWalterWagner, You Must Remember This (1975)

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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

Karen Carpenter

People, Would Be, Normal

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

Peter Tork

Routine, Actors, Saws

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The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

Annette Funicello

Children, Clubs, Theater

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I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Charles Bukowski

Reality, California, Southern

Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

George Osborne

Party, Writing, California

House of Commons, www.publications.parliament.uk. August 11, 2011.

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Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy

Adam Anderson

Wife, Creepy, Found

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Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

Robin Williams

Pluto, Planets, Mice

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Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

Frans de Waal

Animal, Ducks, Example

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People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

Tom Robbins

Sacrifice, People, Still Life With Woodpecker

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But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands and how my stomach folded and how we tried to get Mickey to nurse and how about that time when the landlord said...but you said...and I cried, Jude. You knew me and had listened to the things I said in the night, and heard me in the bathroom and laughed at my raggedy girdle and I laughed too because I knew you too, Jude. So how could you leave me when you knew me?

Toni Morrison

Night, Hands, Years

Toni Morrison (1973). “Sula: a Novel”

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