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"There's enough bang in there to blow us all to Jesus. If I'm gonna die, I want to die comfortable."
"This box is full of stuff that almost killed me."
"[to his son] You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your Mommy, your Daddy. You love your pajamas. You love everything, don't ya? Yea. But you know what, buddy? As you get older, some of the things you love might not seem so special anymore. Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you'll realize it's just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal. And then you forget the few things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things. With me, I think it's one."
"You'll know when you're in it."
"Cut the red wire."
"War is a drug."
"You don't have to be a hero to do this job. But it helps."
"Jeremy Renner - SFC William James"
"Anthony Mackie - Sgt. JT Sanborn"
"Brian Geraghty - Spc. Owen Eldridge"
"Guy Pearce - SSG Matt Thompson"
"Ralph Fiennes - Contractor Team Leader"
"David Morse - Colonel Reed"
"Evangeline Lilly - Connie James"
"Christian Camargo - Lt. Col. John Cambridge"
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.