Joss Whedon citations

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“Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.”

“You can't take the sky from me.”

“You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.”

“Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.”

“Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.”

“That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain.

Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.”

“I cannot abide useless people.”

“Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.”

“Shiny, let's be bad guys!”

“He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.”

“The thing about changing the world… Once you do it, the world's all different.”

“If the apocalypse comes… beep me!”

“Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?”

“As we all know, blinking lights means science.”

“Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men”

“If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.”

“Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”

“It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.”

“Time for some thrillin' heroics.”

“Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.”

“The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.”

“Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous, green rage monster.”

“I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting… Something's going down. I'm right about this.”

“Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness”

“If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.”

“Can't stop the signal”

“If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock…”

“It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?”

“I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”