American Dream Quotes - Page 7

• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.

  Pamela Anderson

  Sexy, Football, Dream

  Playboy, May 2004.

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• The American Dream is a romantic notion but it's newer - not as pretty. You go to Europe, and it says something about the type of person you are. You're in search of something more intimate and more about yourself.

  Kate Hudson

  Dream, Europe, Intimate

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• The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!

  Al Murray

  Dream, America, World

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• My parents are proud of their Indian heritage, but they came halfway across the world so their children could be born here, raised here as Americans. They came legally, but they came here in search of the American dream, in search of freedom and opportunity.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Children, Opportunity

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

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• The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

  Harvey Milk

  Dream, Neighborhood

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

  Wendell Pierce

  Dream, Heart, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

  Michelle Malkin

  Dream, Guarantees

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• If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

  Rand Paul

  Dream, Taken, Dies

  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.

  Eddie Izzard

  Dream, Growing Up, Gutters

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• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

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• If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong -- or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many.

  Jeb Bush

  Dream, Recovery, Government

  "Jeb's primary strategy: Run a general election campaign" by Adam P. Levy, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2015.

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• President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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• Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.

  Russell Simmons

  Uplifting, Dream, Opportunity

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• The American dream means that you have the chance to work hard, get an education and do great things for yourself, for your kids. The great thing in American is it doesn't matter what your last name is, doesn't matter if you're wealthy.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Hard Work, Mean

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.

  Frank McCourt

  Dream, Fantasy, Living The American Dream

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• In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

  David Platt

  Dream, Inability, Delight

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• As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Wish, Our Society

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• The American dream belongs to all of us.

  Kamala Harris

  Dream

  "The American Dream belongs to all of us". Interview with Suzanne Malveaux, edition.cnn.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Believe, Fall

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• To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.

  Monica Drake

  Dream, Memories, Party

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• Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

  Rafael Cruz

  Dream, Country, Greatness

  "Ted Cruz's Father Talks About Latinos, Conservatives and the American Dream", www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Make a sex tape, upload it, get on a reality show, release a perfume, retire. That's the new American dream.

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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• You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.

  Will Durst

  Dream, Ideas, America

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