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" Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes. "
Rich
Do The Right Thing
Friend
" And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. "
Teachers
Public
Private
" And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union. "
People
Women
Always
" Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake. "
Mistake
His
Call
" Art is truth. "
Art
Truth
" Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation. "
Me
Same
Aging
" Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity. "
Attention
You
Doing
" But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites. "
People
Republican
Giving
" By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't describe a song before you sing it or tell about a painting before you show it. You don't reveal the recipe before you serve the dish. You taste it. "
Song
People
Painting
" For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. "
Relationship
Me
Level
" For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes. "
Bros
Years
Trying
" Government is not show business. "
Business
Government
Show
" How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. "
You
Giving
Hate
" I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy. "
Knew
Actually
Jack
" I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service. "
Service
Believe
I Believe
" I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see. "
People
Own
Know
" I don't want to be mushy about it, but having four kids is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me, and each kid is, to me, more fascinating than any five movies. "
Movies
Me
Kid
" I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does. "
Run
Service
Think
" I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth' interview. "
Interview
Street
Sometimes
" If I had done some of the movies that I was offered as an actor - and very good movies, by the way, and some of them big moneymakers - I don't know that I ever would have taken what was the concentration or the time to do the movies that I produced. 'Reds' is a good example, but 'Shampoo' is also an example, and so was 'Heaven Can Wait.' "
Good
Wait
Time
" I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to. "
Job
Want
Movies
" I have been famous for a long time. "
Famous
Time
Long Time
" I left Northwestern University after a year and was in New York playing piano in a little bar on 58th Street, and I didn't know whether to go back. "
Street
Back
Know
" I'm slow at everything I do. "
Slow
Everything
" Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me. "
Subject
Invented
Me
" I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes. "
Feel
Always
I Am
" I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables. "
Financial
Life
Live
" I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone. "
Someone
Had
Books
" It's hard to misquote someone who doesn't say anything. "
Who
Someone
Anything
" It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives. "
Republican
Vote
Say
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