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Joss Whedon talks about how people try to sit in a fuzzy middle between sexism and feminism, but he says there is no such middle. He also says happiness isn’t total peace; it comes from accepting the parts of us that stay restless. Finally, he jokes that he feels more like a cult figure than a celebrity.

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[Donald Trump] thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.

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I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

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

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I don't think I'm like Shakespeare.

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You think we're dancing?" "That's all we've ever done.

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I think Hillary Clinton is vastly intelligent and good-hearted and extremely qualified.

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The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what…

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People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

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You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind…

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The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that…

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I think 'Batman Begins' is certainly my favorite Batman movie I've seen.

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The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

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I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.

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I keep thinking they’re gonna call me. I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money…

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The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I…

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We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it…

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I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no…

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The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly…

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People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's…

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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and…

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I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's…

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'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has. It's not about Batman. I think Heath…

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I've seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human…

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I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it…

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I'm more intrigued by things that I haven't really conceived of yet. I have the luxury of being able to think: "I've…

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There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted…

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I think the Trump thing is particularly egregious, and I think he's as much a product of the GOP lie machine in…

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Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to…

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Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize…

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I am a huge fan of what Marvel has established. But when they first came to me, Thor and Captain America were…

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Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with…

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If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap -…

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If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of…

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This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths-just…

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Are you all right?" "Oh my god! I phased!" "Are you all right?" "Are you?" "It was strange." "I can't believe I…

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It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation.…

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An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke,…

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I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in…

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I think [there's] the opportunity for - I almost said President Clinton, and soon I will - but for Hillary Clinton to…

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We have things to say about Congress and all of that. I think we may have our magnum opus coming yet. It's…

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I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're…

Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.

I always watch what I say. I am what I say.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool.

“Xander: It could be witches, some evil witches, which is ridiculous cause witched they were persecuted, women power, love the eatrh, and I'll be…

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.