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I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.

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Walt Disney
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 5
Died: 1966
Died: February 15
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Walter Elias Disney
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Walter E. Disney
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