Abigail Disney Quotes

#1. The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

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#2. When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

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#3. Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

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#4. The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

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#5. My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

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#6. There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.

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#7. I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

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#8. The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.

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#9. I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.

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#10. You can't worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.

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#11. When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

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#12. We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

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#13. Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

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#14. I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

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#15. I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.

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#16. I worry that people will think that I have done what I've done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I'm just as scared and lonely as anyone else!

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#17. When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

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#18. Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

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#19. You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company. They probably would've had had identical demographics for the people who really loved those companies.

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#20. News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.

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#21. I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be.

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#22. Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship. We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.

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#23. When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on. You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.

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#24. I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

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#25. When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.

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#26. A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

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