Top 100 Quotes About Rudy
#1. If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
Rudy Rucker
#2. Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Rudy Rucker
#3. As Aquinas, the quintessential theologian, says: "The notion of form is most fully realized in existence itself. And in God existence is not acquired by anything, but God is existence itself subsistent. It is clear, then, that God himself is both limitless and perfect."28
Rudy Rucker
#4. Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
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#5. I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.
Rudy Giuliani
#6. In principle you could hypertunnel from a Zone B world, but in practice you
can't get the tech together. The evil rays revel in chaotic class-three
and class-four zones.
Rudy Rucker, story notes, Mathies in Love
Rudy Rucker
#7. Some say, don't burn your bridges.
I say, if necessary,
let the kerosene
kiss it on the lips,
and watch it
turn to ash.
There's always more than one way
to cross the water.
Rudy Francisco
#8. I don't think that I look, act and feel younger than I am, I know I do. I'm not irresponsible, just hyper and active like a younger person is. I have a lot of younger friends. I don't have any problems in particular with people my own age, save that I sometimes think they are boring.
Rudy Simone
#9. It's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't just remove that right. You've got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.
Rudy Giuliani
#10. I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.
Rudy Rucker
#11. I don't think anyone has campaigned much more than I have for Republican candidates, going back to 1998. I mean, I've been in 45 states on behalf of 200 candidates - all Republicans.
Rudy Giuliani
#13. On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time ... to put us on offense against terrorists.
Rudy Giuliani
#15. I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.
Rudy Francisco
#16. Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home.
Lorrie Moore
#17. Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.
Joe Lhota
#18. I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.
Rudy Giuliani
#19. I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.
Rudy Giuliani
#20. The spoken truth of Rudy Steiner
'I guess I'm better at leaving things behind than stealing them.
Markus Zusak
#21. I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.
Rudy Giuliani
#22. In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.
Rudy Giuliani
#23. Carla Crumworthy, heiress to the Crumworthy panty-shield fortune. She had come to complain about the collagen injections that Rudy Graveline had administered to give her full, sensual lips, which is just what every rheumatoid seventy-one-year-old woman
Carl Hiaasen
#24. If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.
Josh Marshall
#25. a single person whose heart is aflame with the love of God can create a wildfire that spreads far and wide
Rudy Rasmus
#26. What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
Rudy Giuliani
#27. The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had experience in life. How can you write a lyric if you haven't really lived life?
Rudy Vallee
#28. The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.
Rudy Giuliani
#29. Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
Rudy Rucker
#30. What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.
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#31. Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.
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#32. It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.
Rudy Giuliani
#33. Deborah Tedone, Director of Square Pegs/Asperger's Support Group for Adults in Rochester, NY. Deborah says so eloquently what all parents of AS girls need to hear.
Rudy Simone
#34. I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared ... but reckless.
Rudy Francisco
#35. Rudy is a mutt; my father says he's a cross between a chihuahua and a German shepherd, which must've been some wild dog sex.
Ned Vizzini
#36. They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.
Rudy VanderLans
#37. Not from my point of view ... [Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.
Rudy Giuliani
#38. Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.
Rudy Giuliani
#39. Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern.
Rudy Wiebe
#40. Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.
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#41. Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously.
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#42. If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
Rudy Rucker
#43. I get through difficult situations by looking at how other people have gone through them. I say to myself, 'If they can go through it, then I can.' Or, If they can go through worse, I can go through whatever I'm going through.
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#44. One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.
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#45. The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.
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#46. We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.
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#47. But here is the thing. When he gets on me, I suddenly feel I am fat. I feel am terrifically fat, so fat that Rudy is a tiny thing and hardly there at all.
Raymond Carver
#48. This is like the joke where the guy climbs the mountain and asks the guru, 'What is the secret of life?,' and the guru says, 'All is One,' and the guys says, 'Are you kidding?,' and the guru says, 'You mean it isn't?
Rudy Rucker
#49. With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
Rudy Giuliani
#50. We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.
Rudy Giuliani
#51. Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Rudy Rucker
#52. Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can't bring a metaphor to a gunfight.
Rudy Francisco
#53. More trade with Qatar & emirates is good against terrorism.
Rudy Giuliani
#54. It's not disgusting. Books are disgusting."
"I like books. I thought you liked books."
"Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains.
Hannah Moskowitz
#55. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess of the mayor's mansion last weekend. He's got his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a little cupcake.
Argus Hamilton
#56. It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.
Rudy Giuliani
#57. This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.
Joseph J. Lhota
#58. I'm learning that everything doesn't always come back the way you send it. Sometimes, love is more brick and less boomerang.
Rudy Francisco
#59. If somebody's going to earn citizenship, with whatever other hurdles are put in the way, at the end of the road they should be able to speak English, they should be able to read English, they should have some knowledge of American history,
Rudy Giuliani
#60. Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween.
Ron Kuby
#61. America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.
Rudy Giuliani
#62. To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.
Rudy Giuliani
#63. He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy.
"Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit.
Markus Zusak
#64. There can be people who feel one way about gay rights, another way about gay rights. There can be people who have different views on abortion. But we respect each other. I think we learn from each other. And we understand that ultimately we have the same values.
Rudy Giuliani
#65. As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all wrapped up into one.
Rudy Vallee
#66. The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.
Rudy Giuliani
#67. I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling.
Rudy Vallee
#68. We have to be on offense against terrorists, that we have to make it bipartisan, that it isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican. It's about being an American.
Rudy Giuliani
#69. Donald Trump will make sure that any agreement with Iran meets the original goals of the U.N and our allies: a non-nuclear Iran.
Rudy Giuliani
#70. And it is likely that Rudy had teammates for whom the inverse was true - they were a 5 on talent and just a 2 on time invested, which is clearly a waste of talent.
Tom Rath
#71. Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.
Rudy Giuliani
#72. The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a time of emergency, you've got to become deliberately calm.
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#73. If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
Jack McDevitt
#74. I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can't stop us.
Rudy Giuliani
#75. I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.
Rudy Giuliani
#76. The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.
Rudy Rucker
#77. The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.
Rudy Rucker
#78. Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.
Rudy Giuliani
#79. My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.
Rudy Giuliani
#80. If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.
Rudy Gutierrez
#81. I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.
Rudy Giuliani
#82. In the 9/11 Commission Report, one of the things they point out is that firefighters saved just about everybody below the fire. I don't think they realize how proud the fire department is of that. Because, conceivably, that's all they could have done. They could not have gotten above that fire.
Rudy Giuliani
#83. America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.
Rudy Rucker
#84. Given the opportunity, every one, at some point in time, will dissapoint you!
Rudy Mazzocchi
#85. Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street.
Rudy Giuliani
#86. I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.
Rudy Vallee
#87. You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.
Rudy Giuliani
#88. I mean, six years ago my electricity's being cut off and my car's getting repossessed and I'm being evicted from my apartment, and now I'm all Yeah, havin' dinner with Rudy in the Hamptons, what of it?
Jen Lancaster
#89. There is a reality to the primary process, and you don't win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them by winning Iowa, by winning New Hampshire, by winning South Carolina, winning Florida.
Rudy Giuliani
#90. Once you're born, the worst has already happened.
Rudy Rucker
#91. There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
Rudy Giuliani
#92. Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.
Rudy Vallee
#93. I've probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in New York City with the possible exception of Mike Bloomberg, who was there for 12 years.
Rudy Giuliani
#94. Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?
Rudy Rucker
#95. I like to do things that are surprising and different.
Rudy Rucker
#96. And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.
Rudy Giuliani
#97. My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.
Rudy Francisco
#98. It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
Rudy Rucker
#99. Wear a hat with a brim to counter the effects of overhead lights. It can also give you a feeling of security.
Rudy Simone
#100. I'll tell you what makes me feel worthwhile: organizing and solving other people's problems. It makes me feel good to go to Mexico City and figure out theories on how you can reorganize and reduce crime. To me, it's one of the more fulfilling ways to spend a day.
Rudy Giuliani
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