Living The American Dream Quotes

• People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

  Florence King

  Dream, Mistake, Native American

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.108, Macmillan

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• The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

  David Abrahamsen

  Dream, Country, People

  San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, November 18, 1975.

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• That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Dream

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Respect, Skin Color

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• I am proof that the American dream still exists.

  Paula Deen

  Dream, Proof, Deen

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• You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

  Craig L. Thomas

  Dream, Stuff, Prison

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• We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

  Max Beerbohm

  Dream, Talking, Listening

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• The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

  Kanye West

  People, Prettiest

  Song: All Falls Down

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• When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Knowledge, College

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.89, Best Books on

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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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• 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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• So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

  Mia Love

  Dream, Growing Up, America

  "The America I know" by Mia Love, dailycaller.com. August 28, 2012.

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

  Frank McCourt

  Dream, American Dream, Fantasy

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• I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Dream, New York, California

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what's wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?

  Bob Ross

  Dream, Pushing, Secure

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• I'm living the American dream.

  Dick Vitale

  Dream, American Dream

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• And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.

  Kanye West

  Dream, Self Esteem, Team

  Song: Self Conscious

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