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The Mind Always Fails First, Not The Body. The Secret Is To Make Your Mind Work For You, Not Against You.

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The Mind Always Fails First, Not The Body. The Secret Is To Make Your Mind Work For You, Not Against You.

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I Think That One-liners Are Very Important And Sometimes You Don't Even Know When You're Making The Movie That It's Going To Be A Great Line. I Remember When We Did 'the Terminator' And I Came To The Line "i'll Be Back" I Had No Idea That It Was Going To Be An Important Line.

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Many Women Seem To Have Hang-ups About Going Out With Me Because They Feel They Have To Be In The Same Shape That I Am. If They're Overweight, They're Insecure, Because They Don't Understand That I Don't Look At Women The Same Way I Look At Myself.

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

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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.

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

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

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The Mind Is The Limit. As Long As The Mind Can Envision The Fact That You Can Do Something, You Can Do It, As Long As You Really Believe 100 Percent.

I Think One Thing That Is Extremely Important Is To Connect With People In Order To Be Successful And Bring The People In So That They Become Your Partners.

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The Secret Is Contained In A Three-part Formula I Learned In The Gym: Self Confidence, A Positive Mental Attitude, And Honest Hard Work.

Self Confidence

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From The Bodybuilding Days On, I Learned That Everything Is Reps And Mileage. The More Miles You Ski, The Better A Skier You Become; The More Reps You Do, The Better Your Body.

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Be Hungry For Success, Hungry To Make Your Mark, Hungry To Be Seen And To Be Heard And To Have An Effect. And As You Move Up And Become Successful, Make Sure Also To Be Hungry For Helping Others.

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

If I Would Do Another 'terminator' Movie I Would Have Terminator Travel Back In Time And Tell Arnold Not To Have A Special Election.

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

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Those Public Employee Union Bosses Think They Already Control The Legislators, They Already Control Everyone Up There In Sacramento, And Now, Because They Have The Money, They Want To Control All Of You, .. They Want To Raise Your Taxes. It's All Going In That Direction -- Raising Your Taxes. But I'm Here As Your Warrior, Remember That. I Want To Protect You.

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

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

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You Never Want To Fail Because You Didn't Work Hard Enough.

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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.

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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.

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I Don't Mind Looking Foolish But It's Just That I'm So Bad At Singing. The Only Time People Ask Me To Sing Is If They Want The Party To Stop. If They Want Everyone To Go Home. Immediately.

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.

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My Body Is Like Breakfast, Lunch, And Dinner. I Don't Think About It, I Just Have It.

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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.

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

I Am Absolutely Ecstatic About It, ... To Say You Are One Of The 50 Favorite Villains And One Of The 50 Favorite Heroes In The History Of American Motion Pictures, That Is Unbelievable, And I Felt Very Honored.

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The Good Bodybuilders Have The Same Mind ... That A Sculptor Has. If You Analyze It, You Look In The Mirror And You Say, Okay, I Need A Bit More Deltoids ... So That The Proportion's Right, And ... You Exercise And Put Those Deltoids On, Whereas An Artist Would Just Slap On Some Clay On Each Side.

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 Think That If You Grow Up Trying To Be The Best Then You Have To Be Competitive Because The More You Compete, The More Someone Is There That Is A Challenge And The More Your Performance Improves.

I Think There Are Some People That Are Capable Of Making A Sequel More Special Than The Original. And We Have Seen That When The Original 'terminator' Came Out, Then Jim Cameron Outdid Himself With The Sequel. Then It Became The Highest Grossing Movie Of The Year When It Came Out In 1991.

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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.

On The Way Up Here To The Podium, A Gentleman Came Up To Me And Said, "governor, You Are As Good A Politician As You Were An Actor." What A Cheap Shot.

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.

What's Fascinating Is, People In Washington Would Rather Spend Time In Hollywood, And People In Hollywood Would Rather Spend Time In Washington.

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.

I'll Be Back Always Sounded A Little Girly To Me.

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We Had The Berlin Wall; We Had Walls Everywhere. But We Always Looked At The Wall As Kind Of Like The Outside Of The Wall Is The Enemy. Are We Looking At Mexico As The Enemy? No, It's Not. These Are Our Trading Partners.

I Ask Citizens And Governments Everywhere To Do Their Part By Conserving Energy And Reducing The Use Of Fossil Fuels For The Good Of The World Community. This Is Our Duty To Those Who Share This World With Us And To Those Who Follow Us: Wherever We See A Threat To Our Environment We Must Take Action

I Think That If I Have A Chance To Go Back, Why Not Just Go Back All The Way In History To The Times Of The Pyramids Or The Roman Days? I Think There Are So Many Great Historic Times Until Now That I Would Like To Get A Little Peek Of Those Periods, Rather Than Just 1984. Why Limit Yourself?

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I Think This Is Exactly Where The Action Is, Is In The Middle. I Have Seen It When I Was Governor Of The State Of California. I Have Seen It Firsthand, That The Only Way We Brought Democrats And Republicans Together, We Could Really Solve Very Important Issues. I Remember That's How We Really Started Rebuilding California And Invested $60 Billion In Infrastructure.

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

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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I Comfortably Can Say That I Am A Republican And I Always Will Be A Republican Because The Republican Party Is A Big Tent And There Was Not Always Things That I Agreed With Or They Didn't Agree With Me Many Times. But The Fact Of The Matter Is That's The Philosophy, And Everything That I've Heard Is Exactly The Same.

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.

The Greatest Feeling You Can Get In A Gym Or The Most Satisfying Feeling You Can Get In The Gym Is The Pump. It Feels Fantastic. It's As Satisfying To Me As Cumming Is, You Know, As In Having Sex With A Woman And Cumming. So Can You Believe How Much I Am In Heaven? I Am Like Getting The Feeling Of Cumming In The Gym; I'm Getting The Feeling Of Cumming At Home; I'm Getting The Feeling Of Cumming Backstage; When I Pump Up, When I Pose Out In Front Of 5000 People I Get The Same Feeling, So I Am Cumming Day And Night. It's Terrific, Right? So You Know, I Am In Heaven.

Normal People Can Be Happy With A Regular Life, But There Is More To Life Than Just Plodding Through An Average Existence.

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

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.

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.

You Have To Think Outside The Box.

Think Outside The Box

And Now, Of Course This Is Another Thing I Didn't Count On, That Now As The Governor Of The State Of California, I Am Selling California Worldwide. You See That? Selling.

People Get Very Creative If You Include Them.

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

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

I Am What I Am - Which Is I Have Aged.

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

I Remember One Guy, Reg Park, A British Bodybuilder, Who Entered Mr Universe When He Was Very Young. But He Won It And Continued To Win It A Second And Third Time. So, He Was My Idol. I Read Everything About Reg Park And Followed His Footsteps And Trained Like Him. I Said If He Could Make It, I Could Make It. It Was A Blueprint, Basically, For How To Get There, To Win The Championships.

Men Shouldn't Feel Like Fags Just Because They Want To Have Nice-looking Bodies.

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.

"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.

For Me Life Is Continuously Being Hungry. The Meaning Of Life Is Not Simply To Exist, To Survive, But To Move Ahead, To Go Up, To Achieve, To Conquer.

When You Talk About The Stimulus Package, You Can Ask 1,000 Different People And They - You Will Have 1,000 Different Opinions Of What Is The Ideal Stimulus Package.

Different Opinions

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.

Not Every Legend Is A Myth, Some Are Flesh And Blood. Some Legends Walk Among Us, But They Aren’t Born, They’re Built. Legends Are Made From Iron & Sweat, Mind And Muscle, Blood And Vision And Victory. Legends Are Champions, They Grow, They Win, They Conquer. There’s A Legend Behind Every Legacy, There’s A Blueprint Behind Every Legend.

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

Again And Again

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.

Posing Is A Performing Art.

I Take The Academic Education As Seriously As The Physical Education. That's Why I Tell Parents That The Schools Can't Do It All Themselves. The Parents Can't Come Home From Work And Turn On The Tv. That's Not Being A Good Parent.

I Made My Fair Share Of Mistakes.

The Mind Always Fails First, Not The Body. The Secret Is To Make Your Mind Work For You, Not Against You.

If It's Hard To Remember, It'll Be Difficult To Forget.

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.

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.

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

I Am A Big Believer In Education, Because When I Grew Up In Austria - When I Grew Up In Austria I Had A Great Education. I Had Great Teachers.

I Saw A Woman Wearing A Sweatshirt With Guess On It. I Said, Thyroid Problem?

People Should Make Up Their Own Mind About What They Think Of Me.

Failure Is Not An Option. Everyone Has To Succeed.

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Stay Hungry, Stay Healthy, Be A Gentleman, Believe Strongly In Yourself And Go Beyond Limitations.

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

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It's Simple, If It Jiggles, It's Fat.

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

I Was Born In Europe... And I've Traveled All Over The World. I Can Tell You That There Is No Place, No Country, That Is More Compassionate, More Generous, More Accepting, And More Welcoming Than The United States Of America.

I Think Actions Speak Louder Than Words. You Can Do All The Hyping You Want. It Doesn't Mean Anything.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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.

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'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.

Teachers And Nurses Get The Best Seats In Heaven.

The Worst Thing I Can Be Is The Same As Everybody Else. I Hate That.

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Luck Is For The Ill-prepared.

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.

If I Can See It And Believe It, Then I Can Achieve It.

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 Key To Success? Work Hard, Stay Focused And Marry A Kennedy.

If You Work Hard And Play By The Rules, This Country Is Truly Open To You. You Can Achieve Anything.

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.

In [my] Youth I Was Smacked Around.

Kids Nowadays...tend To Go Overboard [on] Protein - Something I Believe To Be Totally Unnecsssary...[i State In] My Formula For Basic Good Eating: Eat About One Gram Of Protein For Every Two Pounds Of Body Weight.

The Facts Are There That We Have Created, Man Has, A Self-inflicted Wound That Man Has Created Through Global Warming.

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.

It Doesn't Matter If You Are A Democrat Or Republican, If You're Young Or Old, What The Racial Thing Is, Nothing Matters To Me.

I Think It Is Important That We Go And Bring Both Of The Parties Together. The More We Go To The Left, The More We Go To The Right, I Believe Of What President Eisenhower Said, "politics Is Like The Road. The Left And The Right Represents The Gutter, And The Middle Is Drivable."

I Have Rarely Seen The Government Do Anything That Was Effective.

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.

I'm A Competitive Bodybuilder; I'm Not Training Just To Be Healthy. Ninety-five Percent Of The People Training With Weights Are Into This Health Thing, And It's A Different Mentality Entirely.

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