And, uh, I’ve got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
Meaning of the quote
The famous American cartoonist Rube Goldberg had a lot of creative work stored up in his office. He had around 6,000 cartoons, plus many books and papers that he had collected over the years. This shows how prolific and hardworking he was, always coming up with new ideas and collecting inspiring materials for his artwork.
About Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg, a renowned American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, is best known for his complex and intricate machines that perform simple tasks in convoluted ways. He received numerous accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize and the Reuben Award, and his influence lives on through international Rube Goldberg Machine Contests.
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And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.
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Naturally, I’m conservative; I’m a Republican. I always was.
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And I, uh, 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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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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It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.
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And, uh, I’ve got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
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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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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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Yeah, yeah. I, I don’t think I’m always right. But I don’t think young people are always right, either.
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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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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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When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
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