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"The world is full of lonely people afraid to make the first move."
"You know, my father used to say, whatever you do, do it 100%. When you work, work. When you laugh, laugh. When you eat, eat like it's your last meal."
"[Eating KFC in Kentucky] Mmm. I think this is the best Kentucky Fried Chicken I ever had. But I guess it's fresher down here, right?"
"It's like what your friend the President said, "Ask not... Your country, what you could do for it. Ask what you do for yourself." Y'know?"
"Yes, I live in a castle, Tony! Alone. And rich white people pay me to play piano for them because it makes them feel cultured. But as soon as I step off that stage, I go right back to being just another negro to them. Because that is their true culture. And I suffer that side alone, because I'm not accepted by my own people 'cause I'm not like them, either. So if I'm not black enough and if I'm not white enough and if I'm not man enough then tell me, Tony, what am I!?"
"You never win with violence, Tony. You only win when you maintain your dignity."
"Viggo Mortensen – Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga"
"Mahershala Ali – "Doc" Don Shirley"
"Linda Cardellini – Dolores Vallelonga"
"Dimeter Marinov – Oleg"
"Mike Hatton – George"
"Iqbal Theba – Amit"
"Sebastian Maniscalco – Johnny Venere"
"P.J. Byrne – Record Executive Producer"
"Montrel Miller – Birmingham Hotel Waiter"
"Tom Virtue – Morgan Anderson"
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.