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"[in Singapore Changi Airport] Wow, I can't believe this airport has a butterfly garden, and a movie theater. JFK's just salmonella and despair."
"I'm so Chinese I'm an econ professor with lactose intolerance."
"Rachel, these people aren't just rich, okay. They're crazy rich. Look, there's new money all over Asia. We got the Beijing Billionaires, the Taiwan Tycoons. But the Young family, they're old money rich. They had money when they left China in the 1800s. [pointing to a globe] And they went all the way down here. Not there. Here. They came to Singapore when there was nothing but jungle and pig farmers. There was a snake here, eating an apple. You know what I mean? And they built all of this. Now, they're the landlords of the most expensive city in the world. They're so posh and snobby, it's snoshy!"
"Chinese sons think their moms fart Chanel No. 5."
"You kind of look like a slutty Ebola virus."
"[to Rachel] She just thinks you're some like unrefined banana. Yellow on the outside, and white on the inside."
"[to Rachel] Good for you. Walking away from Nick and his family's fat-ass property portfolio. You have no one, no net worth, but you have integrity. That's why I respect you."
"I chose to help my husband run a business and to raise a family. For me, it was a privilege. But for you, you may think it's old-fashioned. It's nice you appreciate this house and us being here together wrapping dumplings. But all this doesn't just happen. It's because we know to put family first, instead of chasing one's passion."
"It was never my job to make you feel like a man. I can't make you something you're not."
"God forbid we lose the ancient Chinese tradition of guilting your children."
"Wye Mun Goh: Let me get this straight. You both went to the same school. Yet someone came back with a degree that's useful, and the other one came back as Asian Ellen."
"Oliver T'sien: It's about time somebody stood up to Auntie Eleanor. But you, not me, oh god. She can't ever know I was here."
"Constance Wu – Rachel Chu"
"Henry Golding – Nicholas "Nick" Young"
"Michelle Yeoh – Eleanor Sung-Young"
"Gemma Chan – Astrid Young Teo"
"Lisa Lu – Shang Su Yi"
"Awkwafina – Goh Peik Lin"
"Ken Jeong – Goh Wye Mun"
"Sonoya Mizuno – Araminta Lee"
"Chris Pang – Colin Khoo"
"Jimmy O. Yang – Bernard Tai"
"Ronny Chieng – Eddie Cheng"
"Remy Hii – Alistair Cheng"
"Nico Santos – Oliver T'sien"
"Jing Lusi – Amanda "Mandy" Ling"
"Pierre Png – Michael Teo"
"Fiona Xie – Kitty Pong"
"Victoria Loke – Fiona Tung-Cheng"
"Janice Koh – Felicity Young"
"Amy Cheng – Jacqueline Ling"
"Koh Chieng Mun – Neena Goh"
"Calvin Wong – P.T. Goh"
"Tan Kheng Hua – Kerry Chu"
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.