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"Are you ready for me yet George?"
"I just might show up and surprise you. And myself."
"I guess as long as people come along with the machines then we got nothing to worry about. It's when the machines start delivering themselves that, uh, — that, uh, people better start worrying."
"There isn't any other way to get to know a lot of nice people faster than being in a play."
"If I have such a great life ahead of me, how come I feel so lousy every time I think about living it?"
"As you know, since the second revolution, America has been striving to create a truly egalitarian society, a society with average people. Well the problem is, to run such a society requires certain high administrative functions that the average person is simply incapable of performing."
"Can you imagine how I must feel, knowing that I'm striving to create a world in which no Beethoven will ever be born? But it has to be, not just because of some words in a constitution. It has to be."
"[The randomly selected president is disturbed due to a national emergency while watching a game show that involves a big pumpkin] It'd better be important, it's almost time for the big pumpkin."
"[notices Harrison Bergeron] Pleasure to meet you, young fellow. You've come in a good time. Say, how would you like to pick the next governor of Connecticut?"
"[considers whether to approve a new sitcom] Well, ah, there's certainly nothing fresh or original in the concept. The, ah, writing was mundane, the acting is, ah, pedestrian...I like it!"
"It's lonely, being smart."
"The intelligence gene is the hardest to wipe out."
"You shouldn't learn anything from television."
"Sean Astin — Harrison Bergeron"
"Miranda de Pencier — Phillipa"
"You haven't made everybody equal. You've made them the same. And there's a big difference."
"Christopher Plummer — John Klaxon"
"Peter Boretski - Newman"
"Roger Dunn - George Bergeron"
"Jayne Eastwood - Ms. Newbound"
"Hal Eisen - TV Announcer - San Quentin"
"Matthew Ferguson - Garth Bergeron"
"Michael Fletcher - Technician"
"Wendy Hopkins - Jennifer"
"Hogan Montana - Mr. TV"
"Natalie Radford - Alma Starbuck"
"Ron White - Reynolds"
"Eugene Levy — President McCloskey"
"I hope you understand what I've been trying to show you. You see...the most important thing about a person is what makes him different from anybody else. And that difference is what's gonna make someone else to fall in love with you."
"Since I've been here, I've been lucky enough to really love someone, and to know all the things about her that are special, and that are different - and love all of them. That kind of love - real love - is the greatest thing in the world."
"When they took away envy, they took away love too."
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.