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"[to Eva as Al, Dirk and Eva are being pursued in Kazim's car] I hope you don't throw like a girl!"
"[when Tuaregs surround him] Hi! How are ya?"
"I am so tired of being shot at!"
"[in the stolen car, being chased by a chopper] It's Kazim! Hey, maybe he wants his car back?"
"[seeing the Confederate gold] Jefferson Davis had how many samples made?"
"[about Batine's sarcophagus] Hey Dirk, get your butt up here, so we could scrape some of the crap off this thing."
"[about his tie] Hey, I can't remember how this works... something about a fox and a rabbit... it's really bugging me."
"[laughing, to Dirk] I was thinking about the funny part. Here we are, oceanographers and we're gonna probably die in the desert, chained-chained to truck parts... So when they write our obituaries... that'll be the funny part."
"[as Kazim's troops lay down their weapons in surrender] Looks like you killed the snake."
"Don't you hurt my boat."
"[about artifacts from the ocean and Dirk] Rudi, I've been waiting two months for this moment. Don't mess it up for me by letting him drown."
"Dirk Pitt. Adventure has a new name."
"Adventure has a new destination."
"Matthew McConaughey - Dirk Pitt"
"Steve Zahn - Al Giordino"
"Penélope Cruz - Eva Rojas"
"Lambert Wilson - Yves Massarde"
"Lennie James - Brigadier General Zateb Kazim"
"William H. Macy - Admiral James Sandecker"
"Rainn Wilson - Commander Rudi Gunn"
"Delroy Lindo - Carl"
"Patrick Malahide - Ambassador Polidori"
"Glynn Turman - Frank Hopper"
"Dayna Cussler - Kitty Mannock"
"Robert Cavanah - Captain Tombs"
"Paulin Fudouop - Modibo"
"Jude Akuwudike - Imam"
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.