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"[covered in feathers after crashing during a stunt] I'd like to see the Great Leslie try THAT one!""
"[after crash landing into a mud puddle in the farm during a stunt] Well, there's another one, Leslie can try on for size."
"Push the button, Max! [on numerous occasions.]"
"[to Maggie, after Maggie accidentally destroy his garage while confronting the dogs] A pox on you!"
"[the men of the Sheriff of Boracho wearing indian hats are approaching them from behind believing they are going to attack him] Smokescreen Max! Give them the smokescreen! No, you idiot! The smokescreen! Push the button, Max!"
"Thieves, brigands and cut-throats of all nations may hound us... but we are ready for them... we shall blast them into Kingdom Come."
"[to Leslie, after Leslie allows him to win the race due to him proving his love for Maggie Dubois rather than beating him] I hate you! You, I hate! You, whose clothes are always white, and whose hair is always combed, and whose car is always clean! I refuse to accept! I challenge you to another race!"
"Fate:Push the button, Max!"
"[after getting a pie in the face] Ulp? Brandy? Hah-hah, throw more brandy! Throw brandy! More Brandy! [gets a second pie in the face] Rum! I never mix my pies. I want to play, too."
"[after throwing a pie at General Kuhster] You! You're the cause of it all! It was your idea!"
"[throwing flour at General Kuhster] I don't care! I don't care! You're banished! I'm getting an new tucker-inner. Banished, banished, banished!"
"[to Maggie DuBois] You talk a good fight, but when it comes down to it, you're as emancipated as a confirmed spinster in a knitting bee."
"I speak, read, and write French... Russian... and Arabic."
"You mean amazing because I'm a woman."
"Women have to emancipate themselves in order to emancipate men. So they can emancipate each other where it counts the most."
"THE GREAT LAUGH SHOW OF ALL TIME!"
"The movie with 20,000-mile or one-million-laughs guarantee!"
"Jack Lemmon - Professor Fate/Crown Prince Frederick Hapnick"
"Tony Curtis - Leslie 'The Great Leslie' Gallant III"
"Natalie Wood - Maggie DuBois"
"Peter Falk - Maximillian 'Max' Meen"
"Dorothy Provine - Lilly Olay"
"Larry Storch - Texas Jack"
"Ross Martin - Baron Von Stuppe"
"George Macready - General Kuhster"
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.