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"[referring to Tatooine] Well, if there's a bright center in the universe, you're on the planet it's farthest from."
"[seeing Leia for the first time, but via hologram] Who is she? She's beautiful!"
"My father didn't fight in the Clone Wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter."
"[to Obi-Wan Kenobi] It looks like the Sandpeople did it. Look, here are Gaffi sticks, Bantha tracks. It's just, I never heard of them hitting anything this big before."
"[to Obi-Wan Kenobi] I want to come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing here for me now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father!"
"10,000?!? We could almost buy our own ship for that!"
"[seeing the Millennium Falcon for the first time] What a piece of junk!"
"You know, I could almost see something for a moment. I could almost see the remote!"
"[to Han Solo and Chewbacca] You know, between his howling and your blasting, it's a wonder the whole station doesn't know we're here!"
"[meeting Leia] I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you!"
"[about firing a missile into the Death Star's one weakness] It's not impossible. I used to bulls-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they're not much bigger than two meters!"
"[Upon witnessing the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi] Nooo!"
"Whoah, whoah! Steady! Hey! Steady, girl! Hey, whatsa matter? You smell something? [before being attacked by a wampa]"
"[about Dagobah] This place gives me the creeps! Still... there's something familiar about this place."
"[To Yoda, during Jedi training] You want the impossible!"
"[promising Obi-Wan and Yoda he'll complete his training as he leaves to confront Vader] I will, and I'll return! I promise!"
"[Dueling with Vader] I think you'll find I'm full of surprises!"
"[Upon learning that Vader is his father] Nooo!"
"[employing a Jedi mind trick on Jabba's guards] You will take me to Jabba now."
"I must be allowed to speak."
"Nevertheless, I am taking Captain Solo, and his friends. You can either profit from this, or be destroyed. It's your choice, but I warn you not to underestimate my powers."
"You should've bargained with me, Jabba. This'll be the last mistake you'll ever make!"
"There's a promise I have to keep... to an old friend."
"Leia! Leia is my sister!"
"[the Ewoks think C-3PO is a god] Threepio, tell them that if they don't do as you wish, you will become angry and use your magic. Just tell them!"
"[After Leia tells him her memory of their mother] I have no memory of my mother; I never knew her..."
"I've accepted the truth that you were once Anakin Skywalker, my father."
"[when Vader refuses to renounce the dark side] Then my father is truly dead."
"[to the Emperor] You're wrong. Soon, I'll be dead, and you with me."
"You've failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me."
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.