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"[singing] Life is a cabaret, ol' chum, so come to the Cabaret."
"[repeated line] Divine decadence darling."
"I'm going to be a great film star! That is, if booze and sex don't get me first."
"[singing] Money makes the world go around."
"[to Sally Bowles] Doesn't my body drive you wild with desire?"
"Aren't you ever gonna stop deluding yourself, hmm? Handling Max? Behaving like some ludicrous little underage femme fatale? You're... you're about as fatale as an after dinner mint!"
"Do you know what she has done to me? It's terrible! She has turned me into an honest man."
"Leave your troubles outside! So life is disappointing? Forget it! In here, life is beautiful! The girls are beautiful! Even the orchestra is beautiful! [The orchestra plays.] Beautiful!"
"And now presenting the cabaret girls! Heidi, Christine, Mouzy, Helga, Betty, und Inge. Each and every one a virgin. You don't believe me? Well, do not take my word for it! Go ahead, ask Helga! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Outside, it is winter. But here, it is so hot. Every night we have the battle to keep the girls from taking off all their clothing. So don't go away. Who knows? Tonight we may lose the battle!"
"Life is a cabaret."
"Everybody loves a winner!"
"Cabaret... Winner of 8 Academy Awards!"
"A divinely decadent experience!"
"Come to the cabaret."
"Liza Minnelli - Sally Bowles"
"Michael York - Brian Roberts"
"Fritz Wepper - Fritz Wendel"
"Marisa Berenson - Natalia Landauer"
"Helmut Griem - Maximilian "Max" von Heune"
"Joel Grey - Master of Ceremonies"
"Helen Vita - Frost"
"Oliver Collignon (Mark Lambert singing) - Nazi youth"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.