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It's Not What You Get Out Of Life That Counts. Break Your Mirrors! In Our Society That Is So Self-absorbed, Begin To Look Less At Yourself And More At Each Other. You'll Get More Satisfaction From Having Improved Your Neighborhood, Your Town, Your State, Your Country, And Your Fellow Human Beings Than You'll Ever Get From Your Muscles, Your Figure, Your Automobile, Your House, Or Your Credit Rating.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

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It's Not What You Get Out Of Life That Counts. Break Your Mirrors! In Our Society That Is So Self-absorbed, Begin To Look Less At Yourself And More At Each Other. You'll Get More Satisfaction From Having Improved Your Neighborhood, Your Town, Your State, Your Country, And Your Fellow Human Beings Than You'll Ever Get From Your Muscles, Your Figure, Your Automobile, Your House, Or Your Credit Rating.

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It's As Satisfying To Me As, Uh, Coming Is, You Know? As, Ah, Having Sex With A Woman And Coming.

I Embrace Technology And I Just Think That In 1984 When James Cameron Wrote About The Technology, Everyone Thought He Was Totally Way Out There And It Was Science Fiction. Now It's Almost Reality What He Talked About. The Machines Have Taken Over, Except They Have Not Become Self-aware, Like In Terminator. So This Is Really One Thing That We Have To Watch Out For, But I Think Technology Is Good.

If They Don't Have The Guts To Come Up Here In Front Of You And Say, 'i Don't Want To Represent You, I Want To Represent Those Special Interests, The Unions, The Trial Lawyers ... If They Don't Have The Guts, I Call Them Girlie Men.

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When You’re Out There Partying, Horsing Around, Someone Out There At The Same Time Is Working Hard. Someone Is Getting Smarter And Someone Is Winning. Just Remember That.

Even With My Divorce And With Everything, I Don't Need Money.

Most Bodybuilders Only Have A Hazy Notion Of What They Want To Look Like. They Do Not Say, 'i Am Going To Be A Winner.' The Negative Impulses Around The Gym Can Be Incredible. I Would Hear Bodybuilders Complaining, 'oh,no! Not Another Set!' That Destroyed Them. I Have Always Believed That If You're Training For Nothing, You're Wasting Your Effort!

I Don't Criticize Myself; I Criticize My Body.

I've Seen Firsthand Coming Here With Empty Pockets But Full Of Dreams, Full Of Desire, Full Of Will To Succeed, But With The Opportunities That I Had, I Could Make It. This Is Why We Have To Get Back And Bring California Back To Where It Once Was.

I Am The Most Helpful And Open Up Doors For Everyone And I Like To Share.

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If I See A Girl With Big Tits, I'm Going To Stare And Stare. And I'm Going To Think In My Mind What I Am Going To Do With Her If I Would Have Her.

Mistakes Are Made In Every Other Human Endeavor. Why Should Nuclear Weapons Be Exempt?

People Say, My God, You're So Disciplined. But It Has Nothing To Do With Discipline; I Loved It. Because I Knew That Every Time I Went To The Gym I Was One Step Closer To Winning The Competition.

You Have To Do Everything Possible To Win No Matter What.

I Just Use My Muscles As A Conversation Piece, Like Someone Walking A Cheetah Down 42nd Street.

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I Was Delighted To Be Able To Do The Movie ["terminator: Genisys"] Without Getting Exhausted Or Feeling Old Or Tired Or Anything Like This. I Felt I Was In Great Shape And I Felt Really Young.

The Forest Fires Are The Worst Disaster In California Since I Was Elected.

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I Think That Gay Marriage Should Be Between A Man And A Woman.

My Instinct Was To Win, Eliminate Anyone Who Is In Competition, Destroy My Enemy And Move On Without Any Kind Of Hesitation At All.

I Was Striving To Be The Most Muscular Man, And It Got Me Into The Movies. It Got Me Everything That I Have.

I Was Also Going To Give A Graduation Speech In Arizona This Weekend. But With My Accent, I Was Afraid They Would Try To Deport Me.

Someday The World Is Going To Know Who I Am-just Be Hearing My First Name.

I'd Always Wanted To Tell People That When I Work On My Body I'm Thinking About Classical Sculpture, So I Jumped At The Chance To Show Off Body Building As An Art Form.

Sometimes You Do Know, In 'commando' When I Said 'i Lied', I Knew That It Was Going To Be A Funny Line. I've Never Had A Bad Line.

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Obviously, I've Made Statements That Were Ludicrous And Crazy And Outrageous And All Those Things, Because That's The Way I Always Was.

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Having A Pump Is Like Having Sex. I Train Two, Sometimes Three Times A Day. Each Time I Get A Pump. It's Great. I Feel Like I'm Coming All Day.

As You Know, I'm An Immigrant. I Came Over Here As An Immigrant, And What Gave Me The Opportunities, What Made Me To Be Here Today, Is The Open Arms Of Americans. I Have Been Received. I Have Been Adopted By America.

If I Would Have Listened To The Naysayers, I Would Still Be In The Austrian Alps Yodeling.

People Need To Be Insured So When You Have An Accident Out There, Or When Something Catastrophic Happens To You, That You're Covered And There's Not Someone Else Has To Pay For You. That Is As Simple As That.

It All Comes From The Mind. I've Seen The Most Incredible Success Stories Because A Person Had A Dream And It Was So Powerful No One Could Touch It. He'd Feel It, Believe It, Think About It All Day And Night. That Would Inspire Him To Do Things Necessary To Get The Results He Wanted.

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

I Made My Fair Share Of Mistakes.

If You Want To Turn A Vision Into Reality, You Have To Give 100% And Never Stop Believing In Your Dream.

You Can't Tell A Kid That It's Time To Exercise; That's A Turn-off...you Have To Say 'let's Go To The Park And Have Some Fun.' Then You Get Them To Do Some Running, Play On The Swings, Practice On The Balance Beam, Basically Get A Full Workout Disguised As Play.

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When You Campaign And Have To Participate In So Many Debates Just To The Win The Nomination Of Your Party, You've Had A Lot Of Practice. You Get To Figure Out As You Go From One Debate To Another Where You Made Your Mistakes. By The Time You Get To The Big Debate You're Pretty Polished.

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The Best Activities For Your Health Are Pumping And Humping.

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Everything That I've Accomplished In Life Was Because Of America And Because Of California, So I Should Take Seven Years Out Of My Life To Be A Public Servant And To Serve The People Of California Regardless Of The Lack Of Pay.

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We Are Going In The Direction Of Artificial Intelligence Or Hybrid Intelligence Where A Part Of Our Brain Will Get Information From The Cloud And The Other Half Is From You, So All This Stuff Will Happen In The Future.

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My Whole Life Everyone Always Said 'it Can't Be Done', 'you'll Never Do It', 'you Will Fail', 'no One Has Ever Gone From Austria And Become A Mr Universe, Blah, Blah, Blah', Or When I Ran For Governor People Were Sceptical. It Was 'you're Going To Lose' And 'people Don't Take People From Show-business Seriously In Politics'. So, I've Heard All The 'it's Impossible' Thing But I Didn't Pay Any Attention Because I Believed That I Could Do It.

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As President, Reagan Worked Very Well With Democrats To Do Big Things. It Is True That He Worked To Reduce The Size Of Government And Cut Federal Taxes And He Eliminated Many Regulations, But He Also Raised Taxes When Necessary.

My Only Rule Is To Keep Moving, For A Pump And Cardio At The Same Time. Rest As Little As Possible. After An Hour, You Will Feel Fantastic And Your Muscles Won't Know What Hit Them.

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Thirty-six Years After Coming To America, The Man Once Known By Fellow Bodybuilders As The Austrian Oak Was Elected Governor Of California, The Seventh Largest Economy In The World.

I Know A Lot Of Athletes And Models Are Written Off As Just Bodies. I Never Felt Used For My Body.

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Bodybuilders' Cocks Are The Same Size As Everyone Else's.

To Restore The Trust Of The People, We Must Reform The Way The Government Operates.

The Better You Get, The Less You Run Around Showing Off As A Muscle Guy. You Know, You Wear Regular Shirts-not Always Trying To Show Off What You Have. You Talk Less About It. It's Like You Have A Little Bmw - You Want To Race The Hell Out Of This Car, Because You Know It's Just Going 110. But If You See Guys Driving A Ferrari Or A Lamborghini, They Slide Around At 60 On The Freeway Because They Know If They Press On That Accelerator They Are Going To Go 170. These Things Are The Same In Every Field.

Climate Change: I Say The Debate Is Over. We Know The Science, We See The Threat And We Know That The Time For Action Is Now

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."

He Led The State Through A Budget Crisis, Natural Disasters, And Political Turmoil, Working Across Party Lines For A Better Environment, Election Reforms, And Bipartisan Solutions.

I Regularly Buy And Sell Cars, But I Do Not Buy And Sell Fleets.

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Bodybuilding Is Much Like Any Other Sport. To Be Successful, You Must Dedicate Yourself 100% To Your Training, Diet And Mental Approach.

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What Is The Point Of Being On This Earth If You Are Going To Be Like Everyone Else?

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The Words "i Can't" Should Be Permanently Stricken From Your Vocabulary, Especially The Vocabulary Of Your Thoughts. You Must See Yourself Always Growing And Improving.

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

We've Got To Let The People Know That There Is A Necessity, It's Not Even An Option, It's A Necessity To Have A Chiropractor. As Much As It Is A Necessity To Have A Dentist, If You Have A Dentist For The Family, You Should Have Your Chiropractor For The Family.

The Arabs Are Terrorists And Israel Is Making The World A Safer Place.well Done Israel.

Help Others And Give Something Back. I Guarantee You Will Discover That While Public Service Improves The Lives And The World Around You, Its Greatest Reward Is The Enrichment And New Meaning It Will Bring Your Own Life.

The Secret Of Success Is To Make Your Mind Work For You - Not Against You. This Means Constantly Being Positive, Constantly Setting Up Challenges You Can Meet - Either Today, Next Week, Or Next Month Etc.

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We Are A Forward-looking People, And We Must Have A Forward-looking Government.

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"with My Desire And Drive, I Definitely Wasn't Normal. Normal People Can Be Happy With A Regular Life. I Was Different. I Felt There Was More To Life Than Plodding Through A Normal Existence. I'd Always Been Impressed By Stories Of Greatness And Power. I Wanted To Do Something Special, To Be Recognized As The Best. I Saw Bodybuilding As The Vehicle That Would Take Me To The Top, And I Put All My Energy Into It.

It Doesn't Matter What The Income Level Of Your Family Is, Or If English Is The First Or Second Language. It Makes No Difference. The Bottom Line Is That Every Child Can Be An Academic Champion, An Academic Champion And A Superstar In Academics.

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

Nobody Gets Muscles By Watching Me Lift Weights.

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I Have A Good Sense Of My Body In A Bathing Suit Around People Who Appreciate What I'm Doing, Like A Contest. Then I'm Proud. On Television I Am Proud. But On A Beach Most People Are Not Experts. The General Public Doesn't Know How To Look. How Proud Can You Be When They Don't Even Know What They're Looking At?

The Greatest Feeling You Can Get In A Gym Or The Most Satisfying Feeling You Can Get In The Gym Is The Pump. Let's Say You Train Your Biceps, Blood Is Rushing In To Your Muscles And That's What We Call The Pump. Your Muscles Get A Really Tight Feeling Like Your Skin Is Going To Explode Any Minute And Its Really Tight And Its Like Someone Is Blowing Air Into Your Muscle And It Just Blows Up And It Feels Different, It Feels Fantastic.

One Of My Movies Was Called 'true Lies.' It's What The Democrats Should Have Called Their Convention.

Freedom Is A Right Ultimately Defended By The Sacrifice Of America's Servicemen And Women.

Within Five Years, He Had Learned English And Become The Greatest Bodybuilder In The World.

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No Matter The Nationality, No Matter The Religion, No Matter The Ethnic Background, America Brings Out The Best In People.

Milk Is For Babies. When You Grow Up You Have To Drink Beer.

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My Definition Of A Sport Is That It's A Physical Activity That Involves Competition. Since Bodybuilders Certainly Train And Then Compete, We Are Certainly A Sport.

Pain Makes Me Grow. Growing Is What I Want. Therefore, For Me Pain Is Pleasure.

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.

I Believe In The Philosophy Of Staying Hungry. If You Have A Dream And It Becomes A Reality, Don't Stay Satisfied Too Long. Make Up A New Dream And Hunt After That One And Turn It Into A Reality.

The Pain That You Hold Is Yours. There Is Not A Single Pain Quite Like It. Nobody Else On God's Green Earth Can Feel This Pain, Or Have The Indescribable Feeling Of Pride You Will Have When You Overcome It. This Pain Is Not Your Curse; This Pain Is Your Privilege.

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.

You Go Back To The Gym And You Just Do It Again And Again Until You Get It Right.

Again And Again

Don't Be Afraid To Fail. Anything That I've Ever Attempted I Was Always Willing To Fail. You Can't Always Win, But Don't Be Afraid Of Making Decisions.

I Told Warren If He Mentions Prop. 13 One More Time, He Has To Do 500 Push-ups.

It's Time To Stop Thinking Of The Republican Party As An Exclusive Club Where Your Ideological Card Is Checked At The Door, And Start Thinking About How We Can Attract More Solution-based Leaders Like Nathan Fletcher And Anthony Adams.

I Have A Private Plane. But I Fly Commercial When I Go To Environmental Conferences.

You Know, Nothing Is More Important Than Education, Because Nowhere Are Our Stakes Higher; Our Future Depends On The Quality Of Education Of Our Children Today.

I'm Telling You, If You Want To Have Good Advice, Never Pay Any Attention To The Camera Guys Because They Will Tell You Over And Over Something Is Wrong And Let's Reshoot It, Let's Do This And Let's Do That. Hey, Just Do It.

Here's What You Must Do. It's Pretty Simple, Really, But I Didn't Say Easy. It's What Sets Those Who Succeed Apart From Those Who Don't: You Must Have A Sincere And Burning Desire To Achieve What You Dream, Dedicate Yourself To Making Progress, And Take Control Of Your Circumstances To Change Your Body.

The Mind Is Incredible. Once You've Gained Mastery Over It, Channelling Its Powers Positively, For Your Purpose You Can Do Anything.

I've Heard All My Life That 'this Is Impossible, You Can't Make' It And 'you're Going To Fail' But I Didn't Listen To Them And I Made It.

I Think The First And Most Important Thing Is That You've Got To Have A Goal And A Vision.

Having Chicks Around Is The Kind Of Thing That Breaks Up The Intense Training. It Gives You Relief, And Then Afterward You Go Back To The Serious Stuff.

Intense Training

Everything I Have, My Career, My Success, My Family, I Owe To America.

I Do Squats Until I Fall Over And Pass Out. So What? It’s Not Going To Kill Me. I Wake Up Five Minutes Later And I’m Ok

No Matter What You Do, You First Have To Have A Vision... To See Your Goal, To Believe In It, Have Faith In It And Chase It. And Then It's Fun To Chase It. If You Don't Have A Goal Or A Vision, Then You Have Nothing.

It Is Unconstitutional To Deny People, Gay Or Lesbian Couples, The Right To Marriage. Everyone Has Equal Rights So This Is The Right Way To Go. I Think It's A Great Celebration For America.

You Act Like A Normal Human Being And You Treat Them [actors Around] Like A Buddy Because You're All Working Together. It's No Different Than Being Governor. You Put A Team Together And Say, "guys, We All Want To Shine Here. We All Want To Show That This Administration Is Going To Do Things That Other Administrations Have Thought Was Impossible. Let's Kick Some Ass Together."

There's One Thing That I've Liked Over The Years When I've Promoted Bodybuilding And Fitness And My Movies And Politics And Issues And So On Is To Stay Focused.

Just Remember, You Can't Climb The Ladder Of Success With Your Hands In Your Pockets.

Funny Graduation

All I Know Is That The First Step Is To Create A Vision, Because When You See The Vision – The Beautiful Vision – That Creates The Want Power.

You Can Do It, As Long As You Really Believe 100 Percent.

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I Never Go On A Movie Set As The Star. I Always Go As The Guy Who Just Does His Job, Like The Electrician Does His Job And The Hairdresser Does Her Job. Let's All Work Together And Make This Happen, Rather Than Have The Star Treatment. I Don't Do That.

The Only Way To Be A Champion Is By Going Through These Forced Reps And The Torture And Pain. That's Way I Call It The Torture Routine. Because It's Like Forced Torture. Torturing My Body. What Helps Me Is To Think Of This Pain As Pleasure. Pain Makes Me Grow. Growing Is What I Want. Therefore, For Me Pain Is Pleasure. And So When I Am Experiencing Pain I'm In Heaven. It's Great. People Suggest This Is Masochistic. But They're Wrong. I Like Pain For A Particular Reason. I Don't Like Needle's Stuck In My Arm. But I Do Like The Pain That Is Necessary To Be A Champion.

For Me, Life Is About Continuously Being Hungry. It's Meaning Is Not Simply To Just Exist Or To Survive, But To Move Ahead, To Go Up, To Achieve, To Conquer. Strength Does Not Come From Winning. Your Struggles Develop Your Strengths. When You Go Through Hardships And Decide Not To Surrender, That Is Strength. We All Have Great Power. That Power Is Self-faith. There's Really An Attitude To Winning. You Have To See Yourself Winning Before You Win. And You Have To Be Hungry. You Have To Want To Conquer.

You Don't Really See A Muscle As A Part Of You, In A Way. You See It As A Thing. You Look At It As A Thing And You Say Well This Thing Has To Be Built A Little Longer, The Bicep Has To Be Longer; Or The Tricep Has To Be Thicker Here In The Elbow Area. And You Look At It And It Doesn't Even Seem To Belong To You. Like A Sculpture. Then After Looking At It A Sculptor Goes In With His Thing And Works A Little Bit, And You Do Maybe Then Some Extra Forced Reps To Get This Lower Part Out. You Form It. Just Like A Sculpture.

With Strength And Determination You Can Do Anything You Want In Life, As Long As You Believe In Yourself, Because If You Don't, No One Else Will.

You Have To Fight, You Have To Have Courage For What You Really Want

When The People Become Involved In Their Government, Government Becomes More Accountable, And Our Society Is Stronger, More Compassionate, And Better Prepared For The Challenges Of The Future.

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

Where The Mind Goes The Body Will Follow.

I Like The Color Red Because It's A Fire. And I See Myself As Always Being On Fire.

Concentrate On Your Goals. Do Not Allow Other Thoughts To Enter Your Mind. If You Allow Them To, Other Things Could Take Your Concentration Away From Your Ultimate Aim.

We Simply Must Do Everything We Can In Our Power To Slow Down Global Warming Before It Is Too Late. We Can Save Our Planet And Also Boost Our Economy At The Same Time.

To Those Critics Who Are So Pessimistic About Our Economy, I Say: Don't Be Economic Girlie Men!

If I Have The Chance To Time Travel, Might As Well Go All Out.

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.

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.

For 20 Years, Simon & Schuster Asked Me, 'why Don't You Write Your Autobiography?'

As Long As I Live, I Will Never Forget That Day 21 Years Ago When I Raised My Hand And Took The Oath Of Citizenship. Do You Know How Proud I Was? I Was So Proud That I Walked Around With An American Flag Around My Shoulders All Day Long.

People Who Say "it Is Impossible", Should Not Interrupt Those Who Are Trying To Make It Possible.

We Want To Make Sure Children Aren't Left Without Any Books. We Want To Make Sure Our Children Have The Books, That They Have A Place In The Castle. We Want To Make Sure That Their Mothers Have Affordable Day Care. We Want To Make Sure We Give The Older People The Care That They Need.

My Own Dreams Fortunately Came True In This Great State. I Became Mr. Universe; I Became A Successful Businessman. And Even Though Some People Say I Still Speak With A Slight Accent, I Have Reached The Top Of The Acting Profession.

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