Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

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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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Why not? With my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top.
When asked whether he favors amending the U.S. Constitution to allow naturalized citizens (such as himself) to run for president

Arnold Schwarzenegger
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!

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Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

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My hair was pulled. I was hit with belts. So was the kid next door, and so was the kid next door. It was just the way it was. Many of the children I've seen were broken by their parents, which was the German-Austrian mentality. Break the will. They didn't want to create an individual.... It was all about conforming. I was one who did not conform and whose will could not be broken. Therefore I became a rebel. Every time I got hit, and every time someone said, 'You can't do this,' I said, 'This is not going to be for much longer, because I'm going to move out of here... of course, I had no plan how.

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If a girl comes on strong and says, 'I really dig your body and I want to f**k the sh*t 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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Announcing his decision to run for Governor of California on 'The Tonight Show':
The most difficult decision I've ever made in my entire life, except for the one in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax.

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I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

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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.

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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.

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Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

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Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

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I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.

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The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

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If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results.

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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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.

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The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.

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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.

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Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

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I get laid on purpose. I can't sleep before a 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.

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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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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.

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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!'

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I play the Terminator, but you guys are the true terminators.

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I used to feel that women were here for one reason. Sex was simply another kind of exercise, another body function. I was convinced a girl and I couldn't communicate on equal footing because she wouldn't understand what I was doing. I didn't have time to take one girl out regularly and go through a normal high-school romance with all its phone calls and notes and squabbles. That took too much time. I needed to be in the gym. For me it was a simple matter of picking them up at the lake, and then never seeing them again.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
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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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.

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Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

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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.

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