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I Heard Nixon Speak. He Was Talking About Free Enterprise, Getting The Government Off Your Back, Lowering The Taxes And Strengthening The Military. Listening To Nixon Speak Sounded More Like A Breath Of Fresh Air. I Said To My Friend, I Said, "what Party Is He?" My Friend Said, "he's A Republican." I Said, "then I Am A Republican."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I Heard Nixon Speak.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I Heard Nixon Speak. He Was Talking About Free Enterprise, Getting The Government Off Your Back, Lowering The Taxes And Strengthening The Military. Listening To Nixon Speak Sounded More Like A Breath Of Fresh Air. I Said To My Friend, I Said, "what Party Is He?" My Friend Said, "he's A Republican." I Said, "then I Am A Republican."

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The Resistance That You Fight Physically In The Gym And The Resistance That You Fight In Life Can Only Build A Strong Character.

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Women Are The Engine Driving The Growth In California's Economy. Women Make California's Economy Unique.

No Matter What Your Dream Is, You Can Make That Dream A Reality, ... If You Dream About Being A Millionaire, You Can Be That. All You Have To Do Is Study And Be Smart.

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As Governor I Have Seen The Tremendous Changes Over The Last Few Years; The Amount Of Land That We Have Lost, The Trees That We Have Lost, The Homes That We Have Lost, Lives That Have Been Lost, And It Is Due To A Large Extent To Global Warming.

Bodybuilders Party A Lot, And Once, In Gold’s - The Gym In Venice, California, Where All The Top Guys Train - There Was A Black Girl Who Came Out Naked. Everybody Jumped On Her And Took Her Upstairs, Where We All Got Together.

We Made, Actually, History, Because It Was The First Time Ever That Doctors Could Prove That A Lifelong Republican Has A Heart.

When I Was 15-years-old, I Took Off My Clothes And Looked In The Mirror. When I Stared At Myself Naked, I Realized That To Be Perfectly Proportioned I Would Need Twenty-inch Arms To Match The Rest Of Me.

A Girl Can Talk About My Nose, My Teeth Or My Accent - Anything That Gets A Conversation Going Is Fine With Me. It Is Weird, Though, The Way Women Respond To My Body. Maybe 50 Percent Respond Positively Right Away, While Another 25 Or 30 Percent Need A While To Adjust To My Size And To Realize That Ordinarily My Muscles Are Soft, Just Like Anyone's, Only Bigger.

If You Are Gonna Wear Gloves When You Lift, Just Make Sure They Match Your Purse.

Onstage I'm Always Different Than Offstage. I Can Be Very Friendly Offstage, But Onstage I Will Pull One Trick After Another On My Competition To Wipe Him Out, You Know-because It's My Living And I Have To Win. Franco Is My Best Friend, But I Will Do As Much As I Can To Make Him Look Bad And Make Me Look Good.

And You Know Something, Because Everything That I've Gotten - My Career, My Money, My Family; Everything That I've Gotten And Achieved Is Because Of California.

In Acting Class They Tell You That You Have To Be Real, Connect With The People, Connect With Your Partner. The Same As Politics, You Have To Connect To The People.

Create A Vision Of Who You Want To Be, And Then Live Into That Picture As If It Were Already True.

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Almost Anything Difficult, Any Challenge Takes Time, Patience, And Hard Work.

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In This Country, It Doesn't Make Any Difference Where You Were Born. It Doesn't Make Any Difference Who Your Parents Were. It Doesn't Make Any Difference If, Like Me, You Couldn't Even Speak English Until You Were In Your Twenties.

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If I Can Sell Tickets To My Movies Like Red Sonja Or Last Action Hero, You Know I Can Sell Just About Anything.

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The Message I Am Trying To Get Across Is Exactly This: Protecting The Environment Does Not Require Us To Be Against Large Suvs Or Trucks. Instead We Should Develop Technology To Cut Down Greenhouse Gas Emissions Because That Is Where The Action Is - It's Not About What The Size Of The Car Is.

The Word Infrastructure Means Nothing To The Majority Of People Of America. We Have To Come Up With A Sexier Word Than Infrastructure. So The Key Thing Is That You Have To Go Out And Promote And Market This The Right Way Like With Everything In Policy.

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I'm Not A Person That Thinks Back In The First Place. I Think Forward. And It's Always Been Less That People Didn't Get The Character, But More People Being Mad That The Movie Fell Short. Or People Would Say They Are Glad The Movie Went In The Toilet. And I Totally Agree With Them. I Think There Are Some Movies I Made That It Was A Good Thing They Went Into The Toilet, Because They Weren't Good Enough. The Director F - -ed Up, Or The Production Was Too Small, Or I Screwed Up, Whatever The Reasons Are.

One Thing Was Very Clear And I Made It Always Very Clear At The Beginning When I Got Into The Governorship, And That Was That I Wasn't Trying To Become A Career Politician. This Was Not Like I Was Going To Be Governor For Seven Years And Then I Was Going To Run For The Senate And Then For Congress. That Was Never My Interest.

All Exercises That You Do With Your Own Bodyweight Are Great.

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