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• The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.421, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

  Charles Rangel

  Dream, Opportunity, Promise

  "The Struggle Continues for Civil Rights" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Dream, Self, Expression

  "Lauren Greenfield, Director of ‘The Queen of Versailles’". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 27, 2012.

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• Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Writing, People

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.421, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

  Joe Lhota

  Dream, Memories, Father

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• The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, America, Envy

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• The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Dream, Car

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• Many people are dreaming. Let me rent. Let me have a job. Let me work until I'm 70. That's not what the American Dream used to be. It used to be, let me own a home. Let me retire at 59 and a half or 65 at the latest. Let me do this. And now, really, given what's happened, good luck with anything happening unless you do it yourself.

  Suze Orman

  Dream, Jobs, Good Luck

  "Suze Orman Says Oprah Taught Her An 'Encyclopedia Version Of Life'". "Tell Me More" with Micchel Martin, www.npr.org. May 24, 2011.

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• I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Dream, College, Years

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• The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

  Marc Veasey

  Dream, Religious, Fleeing

  "New Year, Same Priority: 2014 Is the Year for Immigration Reform" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

  Robert Reich

  Dream, Moving, Hard Work

  "The Meaning of a Decent Society" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

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• I invested in the album. Look, if I never did anything again in music, it wouldn’t affect my life materially. I live a very satisfying life. Not because I’ve made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that’s the American dream: to be at peace at home.

  RZA

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

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• The good is where American dream is alive and kicking. You can be any race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation - it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. If you have a talent and you have a passion and you're prepared to work hard, you can be anything you want to be. That's what I like about being in America.

  Cat Deeley

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• The reason I do Shark Tank isn't to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well.

  Mark Cuban

  Dream, Successful, Sharks

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• I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.

  Ken Salazar

  Dream, Growing Up, Believe

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• We want to rescue the American dream.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Want, Rescue

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wisdom, Dream, Mean

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.11, Best Books on

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• Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.

  Andrew Hoberek

  Dream, Couple, Hard Work

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• I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

  Barry Sanders

  Football, Dream, Father

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• For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Government, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Mean, Successful

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Williamsburg, Virginia, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Dream, America, Glasses

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

  Julian Castro

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  "Julian Castro's 5 notable lines" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Country, Giving

  "Michelle Obama speaks to the Democratic national convention - as it happened" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dream, Strong, Hypocrite

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