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"My mom told me Florida was so sunny and gorgeous, that everybody in America wanted to live there. Everybody except me. And as usual, I was out-voted."
"I knew I couldn't spend the rest of the school year hiding from Beatrice the Bear. I had to take a stand, even if it meant getting decapitated with my own lunch tray."
"[on the phone with the mayor's secretary] Mother Paula can do a lot of things, but she can't change the weather. That would be Mother Nature."
"So why are there palm trees in Ireland?"
"So to answer your question, Pacific swells are usually a lot bigger than Atlantic swells. But remember: Kelly Slater is from Florida."
"Mullet Fingers: You've got to start thinking like an outlaw!"
"Dana Matherson: [lisping] You and me are far from thettled!"
"Mayor: Mother Paula's is going to be a shining example of my six-point economic development plan, bringing to Coconut Cove over twelve new jobs!"
"Kimberly: I would just like to say that I, Mother Paula, am simply shocked by what's gone on here today. And you, young man, are no longer an employee of Mother Paula's; you're fired!"
"Luke Wilson as Officer David Delinko (the police officer in Coconut Cove)."
"Logan Lerman as Roy A. Eberhardt."
"Brie Larson as Beatrice "The Bear" Leep, Roy's girlfriend."
"Tim Blake Nelson as Leroy "Curly" Brannit, David's rival later best friend."
"Cody Linley as Napoleon Bridger "Mullet Fingers" Leep, Beatrice's stepbrother and Roy's best friend."
"Neil Flynn as Andrew Eberhardt, Roy's father."
"Clark Gregg as Chuck Muckle, (the manager of Coconut Cove)."
"Robert Wagner as Mayor Grandy (the mayor of Coconut Cove)."
"Kiersten Warren as Lizzy Eberhardt, Roy's mother."
"Jessica Cauffiel as Kimberly Lou Dixon, Curly's girlfriend (the mascot of Mother Paula's Pancake House)."
"Dean Collins as Garrett, Roy's best friend."
"Eric Phillips as Dana Matherson, Roy's school bully. (the former at the Trace Middle School later at the Detention Camp Military School.)"
"Damaris Justamante as Mrs. Matherson, Dana's mother."
"Jimmy Buffett as Mr. Ryan, Roy's best friend."
"John Archie as Captain."
"Robert Donner as Kalor."
"Carl Hiaasen as Felix."
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.