That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
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.
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.
The prettiest people do the ugliest things.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
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.
I am proof that the American dream still exists.
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.
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.
I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.
I'm living the American dream.
Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what's wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?
So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
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.
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.
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