Rudy Giuliani Quotes

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

There is no simple answer to what I think.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

How long halt ye between two opinions?

I don't even agree with myself at times.

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.

Some of the things I've said, I don't even agree with.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

There are gray areas in everything.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. You don't even agree with me 100 percent.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.