Rube Goldberg Quotes

• 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.

  Rube Goldberg

  Thinking, Personality, Wonder

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• No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

  Rube Goldberg

  Food, Cooking, Matter

  "The New York Comics And Picture-story Symposium: Jennifer George And Charles Kochman", therumpus.net. March 4, 2014.

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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'm 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 Goldberg

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Rube Goldberg: Inventions!".

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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.

  Rube Goldberg

  Depression, Thinking, Littles

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• Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

  Rube Goldberg

  Conservative, Republican

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• It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

  Rube Goldberg

  Crazy, Appreciate, Quality

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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.

  Rube Goldberg

  Friday, Art, Real

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• And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

  Rube Goldberg

  College, Years, Junior Year

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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

  Thinking, People, Yeah

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• And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

  Rube Goldberg

  Book, Cartoon, Paper

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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.

  Rube Goldberg

  Writing, Engineering, Uranium Mining

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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.

  Rube Goldberg

  Weight, Earth, Care

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• And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.

  Rube Goldberg

  Eye, Hands, Glad

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• When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

  Rube Goldberg

  Sports, Fighting, Cartoon

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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.

  Rube Goldberg

  Lucky, Lasts, Serious

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