Whiskey Tango Foxtrot * Quotes

"You embrace the suck and move the fuck forward."

Kim Baker: "I'm wondering if you can give me something... on background, just about the security situation here and the state of the war in general."
General Hollanek: "Yeah, I can give you something... this war's like fucking a gorilla, you keep on going until the gorilla wants to stop."
Kim Baker: "I think I can paraphrase that."
General Hollanek: "Knock yourself out."

Kim: "What are we talking about, Fahim?"
Fahim: "The human body produces its own heroin. In fact, when the fight-or-flight instinct is activated in the hypothalamu, your body releases endorphins, dopamine and norepinephrine. That is heroin, cocaine and amphetamine, all at once."
Kim: "Okay, great. Are we having the Afghan version of this conversation, where in New York we would have gotten to the point, like, five minutes ago?"
Fahim: "There is a reason to believe that a person can get addicted to this type of high. Soldiers, athletes..."
Kim: "War reporters. Got it."
Fahim: "An addict always needs a greater and greater dosage. And then people make mistakes, people get hurt."
Kim: "I get it. You're a newlywed. I can probably get them to go up to $125 a day."
Fahim: "Let us have the American version of this conversation."
Kim: "Okay."
Fahim: "I do not want to work with you anymore."

"Kim, are you joining in?"
Kim: "The travelling or the crying?"
"Hopefully the travelling."

"There's only so much any of us have any control of, good or bad. If you didn't learn that in Afghanistan, you were not paying attention."

"It's probably just a wedding, they like to shoot guns at weddings. You get it, you're from Florida."

"Jesus, you have got to be shitting me. You just shot a javelin rocket at a fucking car. That's an eighty thousand dollar piece of ordnance. Can any of you geniuses tell me the Kelly Blue Book value of an 1989 Toyota pickup?"