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Quotes by Bruce Wayne

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"I'm gonna show the people of Gotham their city doesn't belong to the criminals and the corrupt."

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"I'm not really a people person. But, when you need help, and you will, call me."

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"It's because of people like you that I became this. And you'll never give me a reason to become someone else."

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"You and I... with what we do... what's at stake... we can't fail. Others don't understand, but even if it's... impossible, we still have to succeed."

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"He`s one of the originals. He`s a legend."

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"You play the hand you're dealt. What I am, I am of my own choice. I don't know if I'm happy... but I'm content."

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"Last time we met, you almost took me. This time I'm dragging you up-into the light."

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"You and your kind have turned Gotham City into a hell. Now rot in it."

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"Doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman?"

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"If I ever see you in this city again, God help you."

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"I never waste time. You of all people should know that."

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"See. You`re already starting to fall apart."

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"Life is like a detective story. It starts with a dame, and ends with a funeral."

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"Everyone needs a friend."

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"Robin is going to be a very good soldier."

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"We're seeking justice, Alfred. How can that ever be a mistake?"

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"I`m not gonna kill you right now. That wouldn't serve my greater agenda."

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"You're a mistake, the biggest of my life, made in a moment of weakness and I'm here to take it all back."

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"If anyone is going to kill you it will be me."

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"You can't fight fate, and you can't survive alone... I can't help but notice that almost seems like a definition of who I am... A person who's trying to do both."

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"You need to leave. Your wounds are bleeding and you need to leave."

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"Don`t forget I taught you how to play this game."

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"This is a war, Dick. Robin is my second... my lieutenant. Anything less than total devotion to this cause is simply wasting my time. I'll say it again... you're fired, Dick. Get out of my cave."

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"If Clark wanted to, he could use his superspeed and squish me into the cement. But I know how he thinks. Even more than the Kryptonite, he's got one big weakness. Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person... and deep down, I'm not."

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"The LexCorp Gulf Stream 5 has the same specifications as WayneTech's Air Glide 3. Lucius tells me that we'll be in court for years over patent infringement. Having knowledge of the inner workings of the aircraft gives me the edge. It's one of the few times I'm grateful for the way LexCorp does business."

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"The problems are still going to be there when you get home."

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"Riddles are your compulsion. Your addiction. And a riddle that everyone knows the answer to is worthless."

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"It`s not like we all hang out together at the vigilante bar and grill."

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"I wear a mask. And that mask, it's not to hide who I am, but to create what I am."

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"Whatever you are up to, stop."

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"You're not the worst company in the world, Selina. You should give yourself more credit."

―Bruce Wayne to Selina Kyle

"This doesn't change anything. It doesn't change anything at all."

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"You don't seek justice. You seek vengeance. They're not the same. You have no regard for life. So I'm stopping you."

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"Look at you, putting the pieces together."

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"Prepare to bleed."

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"You ask for pity? You demand mercy? I have only Justice."

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"If I see a thing I haven`t seen before I throw a dollar at it."

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"I'm looking at you because you're the only creep still standing."

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"Damn, you`re strong for a little thing."

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"I should have known when I chose to walk this path. It never ends."

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"So what do you know...this is an interesting turning of events."

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"Police scanner reports a warehouse full of bodies. Seemingly poisoned. All bearing some semblance of a rictus-like grin, even in death. Gordon's bound to be there."

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"Of course I was going to do this on myself, the only one I can count on is me. That was made clear to me many years ago."

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"Fool me once, shame on you."

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"Let the world think you're crazy if that's what it takes to be the best you can be, Michael. You proved me wrong. You proved yourself wrong."

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"I'm trusting you. Don't make me regret it."

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"You can overcome this or you can wither and die. The choice is yours. I hope you make the right one."

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"She fights better when she's angry at me instead of the people she's fighting."

―Bruce Wayne about Selina Kyle

"I tell myself to stay out of sight and return later with back-up. It's the only sensible thing to do. It's the only sensible thing to do. But then my mind's eye flashes on those bodies, hanging from hooks like sides of beef."

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"No one will hurt you anymore."

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"Are you really this stupid? I guess so."

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"People think it's an obsession. A compulsion. As if there were an irresistible impulse to act. It's never been like that. I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either."

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"Don't brood too much, kid. For your parents' sake, be strong. Always remember, life has to go on."

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"Wake up woman, the world has moved on."

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"Become like me? The Night-Monster. The man who taints the lives of all around him. Is that what I want for him? Is that what he will want for himself?"

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"My primary reason for existence has abandoned me and after today`s events, the remains of the shaky ground that I walk on are about to go kaboom. Let`s get hammered."

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"This is the new language of Gotham. If I don't speak it, the message won't be understood."

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"I'm not interested in playing games."

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"Have I entered an alternate universe where Clark is fun?"

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"He thinks he can scare me. He thinks he can stop me. There's nothing wrong with him a bullet in the head won't fix."

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"Well, well, he`s a liar and a thief."

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"James Gordon is the heart of the GCPD. His heart aches, but it will never quit."

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"He has no idea what normal is. His entire existence isn`t normal."

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"This is holy work for me. There's little room for mistakes, and less for forgiveness."

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"Not in the mood! Today`s been a no good, very bad day!"

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"You've got thirty days to prove you can keep up and not get killed. Otherwise I will fire you."

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"I have questions. You will answer them. Or else."

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"No, Clark, you're missing the point of the question. Why do I keep that giant penny? Or old costumes, models of the Batmobile? Orphans are collectors, Clark. Losing so much... makes it that much harder to give things up."

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"Some would say it isn't him attacking. It's his disease. It's his addiction. Too bad I can't kick his addiction."

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"Oh no..You got to be kidding me."

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"You called, I came."

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"You do not come into my city, and threaten people I care about."

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"I wasn't aware an option existed."

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"Well, she at least knows how to make an entrance."

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"I'm not the one wearing hood ornaments on the side of my head."

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"I`m just gonna ignore the bitch."

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"Not again."

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"In her own perverse way, she loves him."

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"You’re surprised that I thought you would kiss me back? You can’t imagine that I’d believe that you’d want to? That what we’ve been doing here means something?"

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"I'm Batman. I don't enjoy anything."

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"You know when you shut out the pain, it’s the easiest thing in the world."

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"You know the sort of people I've gone up against, so you know I don't say this lightly... but the Joker? Riddler? Croc, Scarecrow and the others? He's in their league. Only without the crippling psychoses to cloud his judgment."

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"Everyone looks up to you. They listen to you. If you tell them to fight, they'll fight. But they need to be inspired. And let's face it, "Superman"... the last time you really inspired anyone was when you were dead."

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"Okay, time to go."

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"No one tries too hard to make the world better. You can never shout too loudly in the name of freedom."

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"What makes you think that has any power over me? Cause I took an arrow in the back for you? You are severally overestimating yourself."

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"We'll be ready. Justice is always ready. That's why evil always fails. There's only one kind of good, and it's all evil ever gets to battle. Makes it weak and narrow-minded. There's an endless variety of evil. And good's got a lifetime of tricks up its sleeve. We learn from the best."

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"I’d be extra nice to me right now."

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"Nothing in here will have any effect on me. Give up now while you still can."

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"You are not capable of hating me forever."

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"First blood goes to them, but now it's our turn. My suggestion is this: we make plans, we move fast and we hit hard. This is war!"

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"You have every right to hate me, I understand. You hated me before we became friends. It would suck if that was gone forever. So is it? Have I lost you forever?"

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"I'm a detective. Don't insult me."

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"Is my love not enough?"

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"I don't carry guilt around like a cross. Life is hard. Terrible things happen. We do our best and we keep doing it."

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"You expect me to believe that you’re here in Metropolis planting peace trees?"

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"I suppose we owe it to ourselves to get back to our lives."

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"Don`t look so surprised. You knew this was inevitable."

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"The JLA are dead... but the JLA can never die. It's too important, both practically and symbolically."

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"Relax guys, nobody`s killing anybody. You`re my friends."

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"You did your best Mrs. Waller, but you came up against something that was too big for you... too big for any of us."

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"I decided early that I would never take a life. Right around the time I decided that I wanted to live. It wasn't an arbitrary decision and it was more than moral. It's about identity. As long as you can choose that, choose who you are in the world... you can choose to call yourself sane."

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"Your search for life`s purpose is as obvious as it is tragic."

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"No matter what differences we've had, I've always known that Dick has a gift."

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"See now your life has purpose."

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"There's a lot we have to learn -- about each other and about ourselves -- before we can present ourselves to the public in any major fashion."

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"Defending a planet and cleaning up a city are two very different things."

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"When did you two meet? She seduce you and tell you she loved you?"

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"The most powerful being on the planet and they kept him hidden on a small Kansas farm."

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"We can do it together. I got your back."

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"I don't do it for the money."

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"Everything she says is a lie! How am I supposed to know she’s gonna start spouting out the truth?"

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"The job's still yours if you want it."

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"You`re ruining our perfect day with your strange philosophical babbling."

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"Go home. There has been enough doom, gloom and personal growth for one night."

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"Clark was right. Kara did handle herself well. I just can't help feeling like it was all a setup."

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"I have a secret, a big one. But I’ve never said it out loud. What’s the point? It’s not gonna change anything. It’s not gonna make me good, make me adopt a puppy. I can’t be what other people want me to be. What she wants me to be. This is who I am."

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"Kara, you're one of the most powerful creatures on the planet. If someone intelligent were to come after you, they wouldn't attack you directly. They'd try to trick you. Surprise you. Remember "Supergirl"... only your body's invulnerable."

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"I showered, I shaved, I had breakfast, very relaxed."

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""Her presence will bring death and destruction". When this day is done, Clark, how will you answer for that?"

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"I’m in love with a woman I can never have."

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"An island of beautiful women and a man spying on them from above and Clark doesn't see any problem with that. I'm surprised."

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"The point is, I’m in love with her and it’s driving me crazy. I’m not in control."

―Bruce Wayne about Selina Kyle

"Which one of us is the detective again?"

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"Croc was crazed, insane, lashing out... I'm not sure he knew where he was. Or who he was fighting. He's all rage - desperate, desperate rage. Not that it was helping me any."

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"We have to be more clever. We are smarter than this."

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"What would I say...?... That I wanted her? That I didn't care if she was married? That here we are trapped in Darkseid's hell in space--death and torture all around us--and yet I would be nowhere else. Because of her. Because of Bekka. My beautiful, beautiful Bekka. God help me."

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"There's no reward in being right all the time."

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"Let them all know. That when they need one...when they want one...they have a savior. And he is safe again."

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"You know this whole friendly cooperative thing? I don’t buy it."

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"I hate Metropolis. It's an art deco nightmare. All bright lights and rounded corners."

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"You’re the unwanted house guest. Go feed yourself."

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"You wanna help? Start talking!"

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"So the obvious path is, who else knew he was doing the story? Who else wanted to protect my identity? Who would want to stop this story enough to kill?"

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"We’re gonna need a covers story: epileptic fit, alcohol binge, banana peel … whatever works. But right now, I just have to get him out of here."

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"It is a remarkable dichotomy. In many ways, Clark is the most human of us all. Then... he shoots fire from the skies and it is difficult not to think of him as a god. And how fortunate we all are that it does not occur to him."

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"We didn’t create a safehouse for you to leave it."

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"Sometimes the old ideas still work. And remember, I've got the shadows covered, Smallville... We need you out in the light."

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"That was a lame cheap shot. He’s trying to bait us."

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"There's a master cat burglar on the loose and you're chatting with your friends?"

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"See that’s why I didn’t tell you. Cause you would’ve never been able to do it. Don’t get me wrong, Clark. I don’t mind being the bad guy. I make all the life and death decisions while you’re busy dealing with collateral damage. But at the end of the day, I’ll be the one to keep her alive."

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"Horrible things happen to children everywhere."

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"Let you in on a little secret, Superman. I can't fly. Bullets don't bounce off my chest. I can't bend steel in my bare hands. But criminals fear me. I'm sorry normal citizens do too, but I'd rather have that than word on the street what a nice guy I am. That sort of talk could get me killed."

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"We`re splitting from the team. Going rogue."

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"What's wrong, is you assumed I'd be your backup just because it's the anniversary of Harrison Grey's death! You act like we're partners, or friends!"

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"You owe me. And I will collect."

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"I didn't pull the trigger on Robin and Batgirl, but I might as well have. I trained them. I let them wear the costumes that made them targets. It doesn't matter that the Joker shot Barbara Gordon, not Batgirl. It was only a matter of time."

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"Admit it. You just wish you had the balls to do it yourself."

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"You have a choice. You can crawl -- on your bellies -- and plead for her forgiveness. That's the first choice. The second is -- I hurt you. Choose one. Choose the second."

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"Listen asshole, not a good time to play the hero."

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"If detective work were easy, everyone would be doing it."

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"You’re lucky I just screwed up once today, or you`d be dead."

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"It's been quiet in Gotham of late... almost too quiet."

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"I know I don’t need your forgiveness, but at the same time I do need it."

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"They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I've looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge... Me."

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"What’s the plan, Superman?"

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"Always the hero, Clark. Just tell me goodbye and get it over with."

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"It means you should shut your mouth, listen, and show a little respect, because you're sounding more and more like a cold-hearted ten-year-old boy who only cares about himself."

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"You wanna beat the villain, you have to be smarter!"

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"Open your eyes. Look into the darkness... as the darkness looks into you. That man you killed... he had a family, people who cared for him. Do you, punk? Will anyone care? Will anyone... miss you?"

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"Clean? You can never be clean. Drugs. Prostitution. Protection. Corruption. Assassination. This city is sick. Its people are sick with fear. Now you know what that feels like. You and your kind have turned Gotham City into a Hell. Now rot in it."

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"Sometimes, it takes death to make you realize how precious life is."

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"Don't filth like you have a conscience?"

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"I know who and what the Batman is all too well. Maybe I should spend some time getting to know Bruce Wayne...and other matters closer to home."

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"Damn the physics! We're not going to die. We're not. I won't let us!"

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"Have a little faith."

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"What? You'll come up with a better gas? Or you'll pick at the scabs of my psyche and find a deeper fear? Don't you understand I've faced terror a wretch like you could never imagine and I overcame. This boy has been through more than you've ever known. He's beyond your illusions too. You have no power. You're the joke you always feared you might be."

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"If I've learned anything living in Gotham... it's that only the good stay dead."

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"I made a very solemn vow about firearms. But for you, I'm making a once-in-a lifetime exception."

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"Not again..."

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"We die every day. A thousand times an hour. Anyone who does this work sees it. Death. Their own... their partner's... their loved ones. We go to work anyway. Death is powerless against you if you leave a legacy of good behind. Death is powerless against you if you do your job. My father saved the lives of over four thousand people, one at a time... with his bare hands and his mind. Death was with him the entire time."

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"Hit the showers. Take your time. Come up with other reasons you're a terrible person and I'll shoot those arguments down when you get back."

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"You don't know how I question myself and everything I've become. The right of it. The wrong of it. Not allowing myself any reward for the good. Damning myself for every mistake. Thinking of everyone who's sacrificed themselves in my war. Everyone close to me. Everyone who cared."

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"Clark, I'm sure anywhere you go in the universe, you'll find stupid people."

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"I really screwed up tonight. I let myself get off-balance and it was used to my disadvantage... Let my anger run away with me."

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"You've got to be kidding, for what it's worth, I'm not into bondage."

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Conversations with Bruce Wayne

Batman: "You wanna hear the bad news, or the really bad news?"

Superman: "Actually, I don't want any news Bruce."

―Batman and Superman

Superman: "I'm not gonna fight you."

Batman: "Why? I'd fight me."

―Batman taunts Superman into fighting him