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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.

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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.

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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.

I Think That The Important Thing To Know Is, Which Is Great About This Country [the Usa], When It Comes To Domestic Issues, We All Battle It Out And Fight It Between The Parties And All Those Kind Of Things To Get Things Done, But When It Comes To Foreign Issues, Overseas Kind Of Things, Then We All Speak With One Voice.

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.

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.

The Writing Is Important, But The Way You Say The Line And The Pause You Give It, The Facial Expression - All Of That Is Very Important.

You Can Scream At Me, Call Me For A Shoot At Midnight, Keep Me Waiting For Hours - As Long As What Ends Up On The Screen Is Perfect.

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.

What I'm Doing Is The Thing I Want To Do. I Don't Care What Other People Think. I Still Will Be A Bodybuilder. I Love It. I Love The Feeling In My Muscles, I Love The Competition, And I Love The Things It Gives Me.

I Never Wanted To Be A Career Politician. I Always Am Interested Just To Take On Challenges That Everyone Says Are Impossible To Do And To Take It On.

During The Time I Was In Office We Have Seen The Beginning Of The Elimination Of The Fire Season Completely And Are Having Fires All Year Round. I Think We Have Seen The Major Problem Of The Destruction Of Land And Property And Lives That Is A Major Problem Because We Don't Have The Resources For That Many Fires And We Don't Have The Resources And The Manpower To Fight Those Fires Throughout The Year.

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.

Anything I’ve Ever Attempted, I Was Always Willing To Fail.

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.

I'm Obsessed With Packing In As Much Work As Possible During Each Day, Simply Because There Is Only So Much Time You Have In A Lifetime. There Is Nothing Better Than To Go Home At Night And Know That You've Done Everything That You Could Do To Accomplish Your Work.

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.

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Desire Something And Don't Just Care What You Have To Go Through To Get It.

You Keep Pushing Because You Believe In Yourself And In Your Vision And You Know That It Is The Right Thing To Do, And Success Will Come. So Don't Be Afraid To Fail!

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.

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You Must See It. You Must Believe It. And Then You Must Never Stop Working To Make It Happen.

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My Relationship To Power And Authority Is That I'm All For It. People Need Somebody To Watch Over Them. Ninety-five Percent Of The People In The World Need To Be Told What To Do And How To Behave.

California Will Not Wait For Our Federal Government To Take Strong Action On Global Warming. We Won't Wait For The Federal Government. We Will Move Forward Because We Know It's The Right Thing To Do. We Will Lead On This Issue And We Will Get Other Western States Involved. I Think There's Not Great Leadership From The Federal Government When It Comes To Protecting The Environment.

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I Have Inhaled, Exhaled Everything.

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Injuries Happen When Your Mind Is Beyond Your Body, Largely When You Think You're King Kong And Lift Weights Heavier Than The Body Can Handle.

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

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.

I Had A Clear Vision Of Myself Winning The Mr. Universe Contest. It Was A Very Spiritual Thing, In A Way, Because I Had Such Faith In The Route, The Path, That There Was Never A Question In My Mind That I Would Make It.

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

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

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I Can Look At A Chick Who's A Little Out Of Shape And If She Turns Me On, I Won't Hesitate To Date Her. If She's A Good F**k She Can Weigh 150 Pounds, I Don't Care.

Some Information I Just Keep To Myself.

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.

You'll Get More From Being A Peacemaker Than A Warrior.

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

The Last Three Or Four Reps Is What Makes The Muscle Grow. This Area Of Pain Divides The Champion From Someone Else Who Is Not A Champion. That's What Most People Lack, Having The Guts To Go On And Just Say They'll Go Through The Pain No Matter What Happens.

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It Is Impossible To Be A Maverick Or A True Original If You're Too Well Behaved And Don't Want To Break The Rules. You Have To Think Outside The Box. That's What I Believe. After All, What Is The Point Of Being On This Earth If All You Want To Do Is Be Liked By Everyone And Avoid Trouble?

I Think That We Have To Do Everything We Can To Work Together, Democrats And Republicans, And Then If We Go The Initiative Route Like We Have Done In The Past, Go Together.

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I Don't Suffer Of Anything That I've Lost.

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.

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.

Politics Is Not Really Different From Marriage. You Cannot Get Things Done In Your Relationship If You Tell Your Wife: Look, If You Haven't Made The Bed And If You Don't Get The Food On The Table, I Will Go And Just Hire Someone And You Will Become Irrelevant. That Is Not How You Make A Marriage Work.

When You Have A Well Developed Body And You're Confident, You See People Bending Your Way, Wanting To Be On Your Side, Wanting To Do Things For You.

Combating Climate Change Requires Collaboration With Many Levels Of Government.

I Have Plenty Of Money, Unlike Other Hollywood Celebrities Or Athletes That Have Not Invested Well.

If You Want To Be A Champion You Cannot Have Any Kind Of An Outside Negative Force Coming In To Deflect You.

We All Have Great Inner Power. The 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 Have To Think Outside The Box.

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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.

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.

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

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When I Was 15 Years Old I Felt Totally Confident I Would Become A World Champion And The Greatest Bodybuilder In The World. The Same Was True Of Show Business - I Knew That One Day I Would Make More Money Than Anyone Else In The Industry And I Did. For That You Need The Willingness To Work And Do Everything It Takes To Make The Vision Turn Into Reality.

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.

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.

I Did Smoke A Joint And I Did Inhale. The Bottom Line Is That's What It Was In The '70s, That's What I Did.

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

Start Wide, Expand Further, And Never Look Back.

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