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I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
I had this child, and it destroyed my family.
It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have 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.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.
It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.
Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
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.
Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
I made my fair share of mistakes.
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
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.
I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
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.
I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?
I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.
To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.
I think Americans are very patriotic.
One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
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.
Political courage is not political suicide.
There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
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.
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
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.
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.
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
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.
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.
I had this child, and it destroyed my family.
I'm not perfect.
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?
If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.
I'll be back.
'I'll be back' always sounded a little girly to me.
Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.
Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
I have inhaled, exhaled everything.
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
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 came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.
I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.
If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.
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.
I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.
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.
I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.
I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
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 do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
Maria is the best reason to come home.
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
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.
My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.
I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.
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.
The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.
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.
If a girl comes on strong and says, 'I really dig your body and I want to fuck the shit out of you,' I just decide whether or not I like her. If I do take her home, I try to make sure I get just as much out of it as she does. The word exploited therefore wouldn't apply.
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.
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.
I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.
I get laid on purpose. I can't sleep before any competition and I'm up all night, anyway, so instead of staring at the ceiling I figure I might as well find somebody and fuck... we had girls backstage giving head, then all of us went out and I won. It didn't bother me at all; in fact, I went out there feeling like King Kong.
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.
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.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. When you make an impasse passable, that is strength. But you must have ego, the kind of ego which makes you think of yourself in terms of superlatives. You must want to be the greatest. We are all starved for compliments. So we do things that get positive feedback.
I'm not looking for sympathy at all.
I play the Terminator, but you guys are the true terminators.
I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
In sports, you learn competition means go after it, win it. And not to let anything else interfere. It's something you learn, and it sticks with you. I consider myself an expert in looking into a particular idea or goal and then going after it without anything else in mind... It's always the same kind of thing. You pick a goal, and then you just go after it, accomplish it, and get satisfaction out of that.
For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.
I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Why not? With my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top.
What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.
I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
She maybe is Puerto Rican or the same thing as Cuban. I mean, they are all very hot. They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it.
This guy is just fumbling around.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
Going through the pain barrier, that's what makes the muscles grow. There's this pain, this aching, and going on and on and on. That's what divides a champion from a non-champion - having the guts to go through the pain barrier.
This is like winning an Oscar!… As if I would know! Speaking of acting, one of my movies was called True Lies. And that’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.
When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.
There is another way you can tell you’re a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people, and faith in the U.S. economy. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: ‘Don’t be economic girlie men!’
Anyway, my fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here...then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States -- that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.
My fellow Americans, I want you to know that I believe with all my heart that America remains the great idea that inspires the world. It's a privilege to be born here. It's an honor to become a citizen here. It's a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here. Our president, George W. Bush, has worked hard to protect and preserve the American dream for all of us. And that's why I say, send him back to Washington for four more years!
28% of the greenhouse gasses come from eating meat and from raising cattle, so we can do a much better job. … Luckily we know that you can get your protein source from many different ways, you can get it through vegetables if you are a vegetarian. I have seen many body builders that are vegetarian and they get strong and healthy.
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?