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"Why was that a surprise? You can always pick the winners at the starting gate - the winners and the losers. Who woulda put a penny on me?"
"I hope the investigation turns out to be nothing; it'd be a shame to see a lifetime of work go to waste."
"You'll put up, and you'll shut up! You hear nothing, and you see nothing! Just like you did for Bugsy!"
"You see, I have a story too, Mr. Bailey. I had a friend once. A dear friend. I turned him in to save his life. He died. But he wanted it that way. Things went bad for my friend, and they went bad for me, too."
"I haven't had a gun in my hands for many, many years. My eyes aren't what they used to be, even with the glasses. My hands shake. And I wouldn't want to miss."
"I'm not that type of guy, besides if I hit you, I'm afraid you'd like it."
"Some we give them the good life, others we give it right up the ass."
"When you've been betrayed by a friend, you hit back."
"You know, if we listened to you, we would still be out rolling drunks."
"This country's still growing up. Certain diseases, you're better off having when you're still young."
"Police Chief Aiello: I'm the chief of police, not the chief of the people."
"Dominic: [dying words after being shot by Bugsy] Noodles, I slipped!"
"Chicken Joe: [as he and another thug are torturing Jimmy O'Donnell] I don't give a *shit* about you and your Socialist workers!"
"Frankie Minaldi: [introducing the gang to Joe] Here they are, "The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse"! Did you happen to see that movie, Joe? It's a good movie."
"Deborah Gelly: I read books, I want to learn everything, I want to know everything. Doesn't it make sense to have plans?"
"As boys, they said they would die for each other. As men, they did."
"As boys, they made a pact to share their fortunes, their loves, their lives. As men, they shared a dream to rise from poverty to power. Forging an empire built on greed, violence and betrayal, their dream would end as a mystery that refuse to die."
"Robert De Niro - David 'Noodles' Aaronson"
"James Woods - Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz"
"Elizabeth McGovern - Deborah Gelly"
"Joe Pesci - Frankie Manoldi"
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.