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"Let's move! The world ain't saving itself !"
"In the immortal words of Jay-Z: "Whatever deity may guide my life, dear lord don't let me die tonight. But if I shall before I wake, I'd accept my fate.""
"I came here when I was fourteen, with a life expectancy of thirteen. I was bounced around from home to home until this... became my home. Guys would line up outside that door to fight me. They whooped my skinny ass so much I started to enjoy it. Until one winter, I grew eight inches, gained sixty pounds, punched a guy so hard he couldn't move his arm to tap out. Then when the Joes came recruiting to the hood, I'd already beaten down half of it. I became a Joe to serve. In the field. So if we're fighting uphill, we take the hill."
"Damn ninjas."
"[greeting Cobra Commander] Cool mask!"
"Well the good news is no global warming summit next month."
"Why does anyone want to be president? Everybody wants to rule the world."
"On my orders, the covert special forces unit, codenamed Cobra, terminated with extreme prejudice Joe command, facilities, personnel. The GI Joes... are no more."
"You know, they call it a waterboard... but I never get bored!"
"Firefly - good to see we're not running low on crazy."
"DOD says I can't come out of retirement. They didn't say anything about re-enlisting."
"It's not like I don't hear what you're saying. But an impostor president?"
"[sneaking up behind the Joes] I'll take 2 boxes of Thin Mints and a box of Chuckle Lucks."
"Is this where I ask you what you have planned?"
"Hustle up guys. You've got to get that defector and get the hell out of there. No delays."
"Snake Eyes. Last place I thought I'd see you. Warden James. It's a pleasure. I'm a very big fan. I love the black. It's very Johnny Cash."
"Listen to me. I sound like a real estate agent. I'm not here to sell you anything. Except maybe hopelessness."
"Destro... you're out of the band."
"The Cobra revolution has begun."
"Well how come when the general says it, it sounds crazy?"
"[beating Roadblock] I want to see that face. The one where you realize today's the day. It's the face all those pretty little Joes had in the desert when I lit them all up like fireworks!"
"Making more things go boom before 9 am. than most people do all day."
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.