Walt Quotes - Page 2

• INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Two, Poetry

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.104, 谷月社

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• I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.

  Saul

  Growing Up, Wife, World

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• While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

  Leonard Maltin

  Real, Boss, Done

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• I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You have like, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Nicolas Ghesquière, Anna Wintour, David Stern.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Artist, Past

  "New York Times Q&A: Kanye West defends his throne" By Jon Caramanica, www.omaha.com. June 16, 2013.

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• I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

  Leonard Maltin

  Teamwork, Memories, Interviews

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• Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

  John Hench

  Affection, Department

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• Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

  John Hench

  Ideas, People, Dining

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• I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

  Adam McKay

  Interviews, Firsts, Articles

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• I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.

  Michele Gorman

  Dream, College, Magic Kingdom

  Michele Gorman (2010). “Single in the City”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

  Zach Braff

  Voice, Actors, Blame

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• Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

  Ike Turner

  Regret, Men, Light

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• As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.

  Damian Thompson

  Brain, Battle, Different

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• Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  America, Appreciate, World

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• Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.

  Chris Brogan

  Worry, Entrepreneur

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• There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

  Anna Quindlen

  Beauty, Thinking, Joy

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.173, Random House

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• It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester souls.

  John Sayles

  Dog, White, Guy

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• For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.

  John Hench

  Artist, Florida, Ideas

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• He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

  Lewis Mumford

  New York, Manhattan, Pavement

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• I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

  John Hench

  Artist, Optimism, Fundamentals

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• The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Fall, Character, Air

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.96, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

  John Hench

  Artist, Atmosphere, Jewelry

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• Walt Disney World is tribute to the philosophy and life of Walter Elias Disney... and to the talents, the dedication, and the loyalty of the entire Disney organization that made Walt Disney's dream come true. May Walt Disney World bring Joy and Inspiration and New Knowledge to all who come to this happy place... a Magic Kingdom where the young at heart of all ages can laugh and play and learn -- together.

  Roy O. Disney

  Loyalty, Dream, Philosophy

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• The death of Walt Disney is a loss to all the people of the world. In everything he did, Walt had an intuitive way of reaching out and touching the hearts and mind of young and old alike. His entertainment was an international language.
  For more than 40 years, people have looked to Walt Disney for the finest quality in family entertainment. There is no way to replace Walt Disney. He was an extraordinary man. Perhaps there will never be another like him… The world will always be a better place because Walt Disney was its master showman.

  Roy O. Disney

  Heart, Loss, Men

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• I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

  Walt Garrison

  Football, Texas, Looks

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