American Dream Quotes - Page 6

• When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.

  Stephen Marche

  Dream, Home, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

  Prabal Gurung

  Dream, Fashion, New York

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• I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Dream, Inspiration, World

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• Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Mother, Teenage

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• Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.

  Martin Scorsese

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  "Scorsese on Scorsese". Book editing by Ian Christie, David Thompson, 2003.

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• Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

  Barry Sanders

  Football, Dream, Jobs

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• That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

  Paul Ryan

  Dream, Country, Supervision

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The American dream is at jeopardy. This president [Obama] has defined the American dream as more dependence on the government. We need to restore the American dream so it's more about opportunity and growth and not redistribution.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

  "Meet the Press Transcript". www.nbcnews.com. November 16, 2014.

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• The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

  Bill Rancic

  Dream, Determination, Hard Work

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• Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream.

  David Letterman

  Dream, Kings, Years

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• American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Dream, Jobs

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• I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Dream, Fading

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• We need more than simply financial education. We need to re-orient ourselves mentally, in terms of what the American Dream is, and how we fit into it. And we have to adjust ourselves to understand that finances are not everything in life. That would go a long way, towards changing this winner-and-loser mentality. We have to - Allow people to feel that sense of success, so they won't feel the sense of shame.

  Neal Gabler

  Dream, Long, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  Carl Paladino

  Dream, Believe, I Believe

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• America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects of young American, a more dependent on the income and education's parents (ph) than another - other countries. So this notion of equal opportunity is sort of American dream is, is now a myth.

  Jedediah Bila

  Dream, Country, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King Jr Quotes.

  Unknown

  Dream, Men, One Day

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• There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. J. J. Greene Quotes.

  Unknown

  Dream, Nightmare, Tragic

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• The American Dream and the American Way are terms which refer to the dreams and ideals of generations of Americans. There is much debate over exactly which dreams and ideals these are, and the term is often used ironically.

  Unknown

  Dream, Debate, Term

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• Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can.

  Unknown

  Dream, Property

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• It wouldn't take us long to discover the substance of that dream. It is found in those majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, words lifted to cosmic proportions: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by God, Creator, with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This is a dream. It's a great dream.

  Unknown

  Dream, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.

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• No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

  Herbert Hoover

  Education, School, Aggravation

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video which expresses my feelings about our culture and values and illusions of what many people believe is the American dream - the perfect life. Madonna Quotes.

  Unknown

  Dream, Song, Believe

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty. George Baumler Quotes.

  Unknown

  Dream, Liberty, Wave

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