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i'm here to talk about success

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the first rule of success is to have a

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vision

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you see if you don't have a vision of

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where you go and if you don't have a

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goal where you go

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you drift around and you never end up

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anywhere

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i mean as you know i was born in 1947 in

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austria after the second world war

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so i was very fortunate

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that i stumbled under my vision

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and i didn't really like austria when i

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grew up

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i couldn't wait to get out of there

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i couldn't see myself becoming a farmer

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or a worker in a factory

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or anything like that

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even though my parents wanted me to stay

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there and have a normal life

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but that was their vision not mine

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my vision was totally different i felt

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that i was born for something special

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for something unique for something big

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then one day i went to school i remember

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was 11 years old

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and they showed a documentary about

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america

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there they showed this documentary the

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huge skyscrapers

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the high rises

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the huge bridges

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the six lane freeways

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and all of this stuff in this emissive

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that's where i want to be

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i don't want to be around here with

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these little farm houses and these

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little buildings i want to be in america

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one day after school i walked by a store

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in graz

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so i went inside and i looked around and

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then i saw a magazine

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there's a bodybuilding magazine that had

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reg park on the cover

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reg park was then a three-time mr

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universe

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and i saw him on the big screen as

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hercules

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i read that and i said to myself wow

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this is the blueprint for my life

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this is exactly what i want to do

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i want to become a bodybuilding champion

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just like rage park

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i want to get into movies just like rich

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park

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and i want to make millions of dollars

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and be rich and famous

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just like reg park

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do you know how great it felt

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that i knew where i was going

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imagine the majority of people don't

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know where they're going

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i knew where i was going

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that i'm going to become this

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bodybuilding champion just like him

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so it was just a question of how do you

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do it

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i was so relieved

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because when you have a goal when you

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have a vision everything becomes

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easy so people always ask me when they

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saw me in the gym in the pumping iron

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days

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they say why is it that you're working

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out so hard

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five hours a day six hours a day and you

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have always a smile on your face

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and i told people all the time i said

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because to me

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i'm shooting for gold

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in front of me is the mr universe title

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so every rep that i do gets me closer to

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accomplishing that chord to make this

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core this vision turn into reality

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every single set that i do

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every repetition every weight that i

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lift will get me a step closer to turn

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the score in the reality

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so i couldn't wait to do another 500

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pound squat i couldn't wait to do

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another 500 pound bench press i couldn't

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wait to do another 2 000 reps of sit-ups

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i couldn't wait for the next exercise

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with the age of 20 i went to london and

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i wanted to miss the universe contest as

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the youngest mr universe ever

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i had a goal

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[Applause]

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so let me tell you something visualizing

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your goal and going after it makes it

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fun you've got to have a purpose no

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matter what you do in life you've got to

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have a purpose

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74 percent

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hate their job in america

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now there's not much different when you

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come to europe

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the majority of people don't like what

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they're doing

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because they're really not doing it

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because they didn't have a goal and they

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followed the score they just aimlessly

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drift around and then all of a sudden if

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there's a job opening so they get their

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job because you have to work

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but then when you work it's a chore

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it's work

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it's not fun so if you think about only

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a quarter of the people really enjoy

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what they're doing in life

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that is unbelievable if you think about

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it so i felt so blessed that i knew what

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i was doing

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it's like a medical student that studies

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and knows he wants to become a doctor

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you know where to go

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and the same thing is also in politics

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i remember that in politics i had a very

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clear vision

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that i will be the leader of california

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this is as far as i could go because i

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was not born in america so i could not

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run for president

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so being the governor of the fifth

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largest state

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of i should say the largest state the

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fifth largest economy in the world

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was for me really

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the ultimate title the ultimate

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accomplishment in politics

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so even though people came up to me and

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says why don't you go

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and run for something smaller you're

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never gonna make it

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i ran for governor and then two months

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later i became governor of the state of

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california

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again because i had a very clear vision

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what i'm gonna do with california

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so that's rule number one

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have a vision

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rule number two is

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don't listen to the naysayers

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don't listen to the naysayers

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everything i ever did

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the thing that they heard out of

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people's mouth was that's impossible

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that can't be done

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or no

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that is exactly what i heard and of

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course i proved to the people that it

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can't be done

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so whenever someone said to me

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it can't be done i heard it can be done

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when they said no i heard yes

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and when they said it's impossible i

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heard it is possible

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i'm a strong believer what nelson

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that everything is always impossible

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until someone does it

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well i'm gonna be the one who said to

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myself i'm gonna do it and i'm gonna

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show it to them maybe it has never been

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that's perfectly fine with me

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but i'm gonna do it

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and i did not listen to the naysayers

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it's all about the hard work that you

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i said i must have been bodybuilding i

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worked

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out five six hours a day i'm gonna do

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the same thing now for acting

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and of course i went to college to study

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i studied the

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and all of this stuff

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i worked and i worked in the work

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and within a short period of time i made

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one movie called hercules in new york

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which of course went right into the

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but it didn't discourage me i still had

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the same vision

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and then all of a sudden i did streets

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of san francisco

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i did stay hungry and pumping on

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and the villain and then all of a sudden

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i was asked by dino de laurentiis at the

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universal studio to star in conan the

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barbarian

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and after i did conan the barbarian the

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director at the press conference said to

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the director was john millius

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he said to the press if we wouldn't have

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the very body

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i'm doing conan the barbarian and it was

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the number one hit at the box office

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in the summer of 82.

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if we wouldn't have had his body we

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would have had to build one

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so all of a sudden

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my body became an asset not a liability

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and the same thing was with terminator

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after we were finished filming

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terminator jim cameron said to the press

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and talked like a machine

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i think the movie wouldn't have

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worked so think about that

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the body and the accent that they

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attacked was an asset

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but i didn't listen to those losers

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i didn't listen to them at all it's just

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the reality of it is that you cannot

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listen to the naysayers so this is a

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very important lesson for all of you so

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when someone says no this is a stupid

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idea

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you in your mind you don't have to say

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but your mind to say this of you you saw

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what do you know

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you