American Dream Quotes - Page 17

• People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Dream, America, Worst Nightmares

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• Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

  Kamala Harris

  Dream, Cynical, Logic

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• Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at times a little uneasily) the American dream, and even a love story. A great read and a valuable addition to the literature—and I use the word advisedly—of medical training.

  Melvin Konner

  Dream, Doctors, Training

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• I think that's still what the American Dream means: that with perseverance, with hard work, you can become something, that the classes won't prevent you from becoming, that there's a movement up that ladder with hard work.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Dream, Perseverance, Hard Work

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even in one state, northern and southern California are like two separate countries.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Country, Two

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Trump and I have a lot in common, and that is a belief in the American dream because we both have lived it. I think it's what animates our president-elect more than anything else, is a belief in the boundless potential of every American to live the American dream. And, I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both saw it. And in our own ways, we both lived it.

  Mike Pence

  Dream, Thinking, Belief

  Source: www.therepublic.com

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• We need to remake and reinvent our housing system so that it supports the flexibility and mobility of our economic system broadly. Home-ownership is rewarded by the federal tax code, which made great sense when that piece of the American Dream, and all the consumption that came with it, was essential to rebuilding the economy. These days, however, it feels like a huge penalty to people who want to travel light within the new mobile economy without a mortgage to hold them back.

  Richard Florida

  Dream, People, Support

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It is America that gave me so much in my life. It wasn't until I came to America that my life just exploded in so many ways. So for me, I think in a way, though I'm English, I've been living the American Dream and I'm eternally grateful to Americans for allowing me to do what I love doing the most.

  Julie Andrews

  Dream, Grateful, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I thought a lot about Nixon's personal history and the changes in America during his lifetime and tried to craft stories, which I thought reflected some of his personal history but also the backdrop of a changing America. Nixon grew up in a strict Quaker family. The idea of the American Dream, of hard work and not much fun, was ingrained in Nixon as a child, but curiously so was a love of music. Nixon himself was a pretty good piano player. So it's the contradictions that interest me, as I think we all have them.

  A.M. Homes

  Dream, Children, Fun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What drives me nuts is that we have these serial sexual predators, who hired back women whose careers were ruined by men who harassed or assaulted them and they're high profile people, and the next day the media is talking about who's going to rehire them. I'm like, Who cares? Why would they be hirable again? I mean, I'm all for comebacks, but what about the women? Shouldn't we be going back to them first? They had the American dream taken away from them.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Dream, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm an immigrant to the U.S., and I've constantly been thinking about America both from the inside and from the outside. And I've come to believe that we're living at a critical time when the American Dream is in jeopardy and this American Era which began after World War II might be winding down.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Dream, War, Believe

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Community, Presidential

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• The American Dream has really good PR. It's kind of difficult to live in the United States and not on some level be pulled into the allure of the American Dream. It's in the DNA of the country. So, for a population coming out of slavery, desperate to become part of the full life of the United States, it only makes sense that they would embrace this route to the American Dream.

  Anthony B Pinn

  Dream, Country, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Still humping the American Dream

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.56, Vintage

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• And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.

  Malcolm X

  Dream, Eye, America

  "Malcolm X: 'It'll be the ballot or the bullet', stump speech". Malcolm X's speech in Detroit, Michigan, USA, speakola.com. April 12, 1964.

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• Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.

  Thomas Perez

  Dream, Mean, Opportunity

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• I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Philosophy, Thinking

  "Cold War/ Make Love Not War". Documentary, History, nsarchive.gwu.edu. 1998.

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• What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

  Naomi Wolf

  Dream, Expansion, United States

  "How the Mitt Romney video killed the American Dream" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• When I speak about the "tyranny of choice," I mean an ideology that originates in the era of post-industrial capitalism. It began with the American Dream - the idea of the self-made man, who works his way up from rags to riches. By and by, this career concept developed into a universal life philosophy. Today we believe we should be able to choose everything: the way we live, the way we look, even when it comes to the coffee we buy, we constantly need to weigh our decision. That is extremely unhealthy.

  Renata Salecl

  Dream, Philosophy, Coffee

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Liberals insist they believe as strongly in the American dream as the rest of us, but routinely demonize those who succeed in attaining it. They loudly profess their allegiance to capitalism, but resent the inequitable money results it produces.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, Believe, Succeed

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• The latest research on social mobility showed that there's a large aggregate decline in the U.S. in your chances of earning more than your parents. But I think where the story becomes more optimistic one is that there are pockets of America, where children from low-income families have significant chances of rising up in the income distribution. This finding of big geographic variation is an encouraging one because it shows that there are places where we see the American Dream thriving and we simply need to understand how can we replicate those successes elsewhere throughout the country.

  Raj Chetty

  Dream, Country, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

  Susana Martinez

  Dream, Ashamed

  "Susana Martinez RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

  Bobby Seale

  Dream, Thinking, World

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• With the end of communism and the opening of Third World markets, the potential for Playboy is huge. It has been said that the two most famous trademarks in the world are Coca-Cola and the Playboy bunny rabbit. There is certainly no one else in our area that represents the American dream in this particular kind of way. That rabbit means economic freedom, personal freedom and political freedom. That potential is unlimited.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Mean, Political

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.latimes.com. July 31, 1994.

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• My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world. Some of the greatest inspirations in my life have been black Americans. And I just wanted to say thank you. They've been a huge inspiration, to myself and this country.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Dream, Country, Art

  Source: www.avclub.com

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