American Dream Quotes - Page 13

• For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Dream, Hard Work, Home

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• The Democratic Party is always going to be the party of civil rights and fairness - everybody gets an equal, fair shot at the American dream. And we're going to be the party that really fights to protect planet Earth - enjoy whatever time we're going to get!

  John Hickenlooper

  Dream, Party, Fighting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When the stock market crash, a lot of people realized that the American dream was not all it was cracked up to be. They'd been living for this thing and it was kind of a façade. It wasn't real.

  Dominic Balli

  Dream, Real, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Dream, Country, Latin

  Source: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.

  will.i.am

  Dream, Energy, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dream, Moving, Ideas

  "Fareed Zakaria: 'The American Dream Is Better In Europe'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. November 6, 2011.

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• I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.

  John Oliver

  Dream, America

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• We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Giving, Nerves

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.48, Vintage

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• No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Hard Work, Appreciate

  Anthony Bourdain (2001). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.56, A&C Black

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• I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

  Malcolm X

  Dream, Eye, America

  "The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

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• Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Dream, Life Changing, Keys

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• That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Sarcastic, Dream

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.52, Random House

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• We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Different, Stories

  "Obama Delivers Remarks at the Associated Press Annual Meeting". www.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2008.

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• The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark

  David Platt

  Christian, Dream, Dark

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• When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.

  Barkhad Abdi

  Dream, Dad, Hard Work

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, Raymond W. Gastil (1986). “Pride of Place: Building the American Dream”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

  Theodore White

  Dream, 4th Of July, Adventure

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• In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit and close family ties. They place a high value on education. And they are eager to achieve the American Dream. ... It's to our benefit to keep our doors open, and to keep enriching our economy and culture. I'd like to see America continue to do so.

  Dick Armey

  Dream, Doors, Views

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• Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.

  Bob Dole

  Dream, Morning, Father

  "Text of Robert Dole's Speech To The Republican National Convention August 15, 1996". www.cnn.com.

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• We are delighted to work with the Republican National Committee to build a conservative Congressional majority in 2014. They have a keen understanding for the need to bring together sometimes divergent groups with the common purpose of resurrecting a Reagan-like conservative coalition that appeals to all Americans with a message of hope, opportunity and the chance to achieve the American Dream.

  Salvatore Russo

  Dream, Opportunity, Common Purpose

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• We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Children, Reform

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Humanix Books

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• Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Lying, Hands

  Speech on the steps of the State Capitol Building, Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965.

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• Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some of the barriers to full participation in the American dream. And the next great barrier standing before our generation is the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, Sex, Couple

  "Bloomberg blasts gay marriage ban while in N.C." by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. May 13, 2012.

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• All the haters are just jealous, so they're trying to bring me down. I'm young, handsome, successful, wealthy. You could say I'm a role model – I'm the American dream!

  Scott Disick

  Dream, Jealous, Successful

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• I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dream, Believe, People

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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