Rube Goldberg quotes
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“I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.”
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“I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.”
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“Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.”
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“Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.”
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“And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.”
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“And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.”
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“And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.”
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“And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.”
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“I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.”
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“I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.”
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“It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.”
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“No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.”
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“When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.”
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“Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.”
-- Rube GoldbergSource : "Rube Goldberg: Inventions!".
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“Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.”
-- Rube Goldberg
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