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"I believe you. What if it is Sputnik, or a flying saucer from Mars? I bet we could find it."
"[after seeing Giant] So, I guess you're not gonna hurt me? [Giant drops the shut-off switch] The shut-off switch. You saw me save you. [Giant looks at him innocently] So... where are you from? You came from the sky, right? From up there? [Giant looks up] Don't you remember anything? Hmm, maybe it's that bump from your head. [Giant places his finger on his head, feeling the dent] Do you talk? You know words? "Blah, blah, blah," like that? Can you do that? Blah, blah, blah?"
"Wig out, it means crazy. You know like, uh- [makes a crazy face and babbles; Giant mimics him] No, no! Don't do that! That's the kind of stuff that makes them shoot at you."
"[he has just had espresso with Dean, and is not used to its effects] So, she moved me up a grade because I wasn't fitting in, so now I'm even more not fitting in. I was getting good grades, you know, like all 'A's. So my mom says, "You need stimulation" and I go, "No, I'm stimulated enough right now. "So, she says, "Uh-uh. You don't have a challenge. You need a challenge." So now I'm challenged, all right. I'm challenged to hold on to my lunch money because of all the big mooses who want to pound me, because I'm a shrimpy dork who thinks he's smarter than them. But I don't think I'm smarter, I just do the stupid homework. If everyone else just did the stupid homework, they could move up a grade and get pounded too. Is there any more coffee?"
"[trying to get the Giant to come to his senses] It's bad to kill. Guns kill. And you don't have to be a gun. You are what you choose to be. You choose. Choose."
"Two nights ago, at approximately 1900 hours (7:00 P.M.), S.A.T com radar detected an unidentified flying object entering Earth's atmosphere, losing contact with it two-and-a-half miles off the coast of Rockwell. Some assumed it was a large meteor, or a downed satellite, but my office in Washington received a call from someone reporting an actual encounter with the object. This is no meteor, gentlemen, this is something much more serious."
"Hey, mind if I ask you a few questions there, buckaroo? Now, why would you tell your mom about a giant robot, slugger? So, what'd you see at the power station, huh, tiger? Tell anyone else about this, buddy? How big is this thing, Ranger? Been in the forest lately, Junior? Hey, where you goin'? Champ? Slugger? Hey, Cowboy, where you goin'? Where you goin'?"
"Would you say grace, please?"
"Aww, now I do."
"[still talking with Dean] Hmm, I see why Hogarth sneaks out here."
"Sorry, kid. I didn't really see anything. But if we don't stick up for the kooks, who will?"
"That's for sure."
"You mean, you know about that?"
"[sternly] Step outside, Mansley."
"Go to Code Red! Repeat, Code Red!"
"I'm telling the truth, dang it! It came from outer space. I saw it! And it was headed toward land. I called the government in Washington. Maybe it was a sputnik, or... or an invader from Mars. That's what it is, an invader from Mars! It was a spaceship of some kind. An unidentified flying object..."
"Some secrets are too huge to hide."
"The story of a boy and a giant from another world who became a hero on this one!"
"Something humongous is among us."
"It came from outer space!"
"Eli Marienthal ― Hogarth William Hughes"
"Vin Diesel ― The Iron Giant"
"Harry Connick, Jr. ― Dean Jeffrey McCoppin"
"Christopher McDonald ― Kent James Mansley"
"Jennifer Aniston ― Anne Margaret "Annie" Hughes"
"Cloris Leachman ― Mrs. Lynley Tensedge"
"James Gammon ― Foreman Marv Loach/Floyd Turbeaux"
"John Mahoney ― General Shannon Rogard"
"M. Emmet Walsh ― Earl Stutz"
"Phil Proctor ― Soldiers"
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.