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

Meaning of the quote

Rube Goldberg, a famous American cartoonist, used to attend fights and sports events to get ideas for his funny sports cartoons. He would observe the athletes and the excitement of the events, which helped him create entertaining and humorous drawings about sports.

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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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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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.

Rube Goldberg

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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.

Rube Goldberg

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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.

Rube Goldberg

American cartoonist (1883-1970)

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

American cartoonist (1883-1970)

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

Rube Goldberg

American cartoonist (1883-1970)