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I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.
- James Gray
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Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.
- William T. Vollmann
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We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair.
- Stacey Dash
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There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.
- Mike Nichols
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I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
- Joe Frazier
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Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
- Abraham A. Ribicoff
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Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
- Lucille Roybal-Allard
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I'm somewhat of a socialist in the sense that I believe in housing for the homeless and medical care for all. So, for me, the American dream has been having a TV show, and being successful and having a nice house and having everything.
- Jim Jefferies
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One of the flaws in the American dream is that there isn't as much of a safety net as you may get in other countries.
- Jim Jefferies
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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
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With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
- Nancy Pelosi
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I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.
- Tom Coburn
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Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.
- Henry Bonilla
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We need more leaders in Congress who are willing to bring people together to solve problems and protect the American Dream for all hardworking Kentuckians.
- Jim Gray
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I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.
- Dr. Dre
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
- Jackie Collins
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I love the idea of what America is. America is a bunch of people that do these incredible, thankless, selfless jobs that nobody really knows about that makes that American dream possible.
- Tim Kennedy
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I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.
- David Henry Hwang
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The American dream is dead for the majority of America.
- Suze Orman
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There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.
- Kevin Bacon
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The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.
- Roy Romer
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I'm living the American dream, but I'm in Japan.
- Bob Sapp
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The American Dream is about freedom.
- Rick Mears
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I am the American Dream.
- John Schnatter
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There's no doubt about it: Hillary is the best person to be our 45th president. Hillary has always been a tireless advocate for working families - she's never ceased to make sure everybody has a fair shot at achieving the American Dream.
- Joaquin Castro
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The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.
- Robert Indiana
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I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.
- Shuji Nakamura
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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
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I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.
- Leila Janah
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It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more.
- Andrew Haigh
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Forever 21 is my American Dream.
- Do Won Chang
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For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.
- Eric Swalwell
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I'm living the American dream.
- Dick Vitale
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On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
- Jose Antonio Vargas
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Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, is the American dream.
- Salim Akil
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The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
- Jill Robinson
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The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
- Dara Khosrowshahi
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I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.
- Mike Medavoy
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I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
- Bobby Seale
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When I became 'The American Dream,' they needed a hero down here. I had no money - I couldn't buy a car without being tied under - but I had to have a Cadillac with blue stars on the hood no matter what it cost because just driving in it will set how they look at me and perceive this guy; they'll know.
- Dusty Rhodes
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One night in 1974, I made the comment, 'Here I am, this fat kid, the son of a plumber. I don't look like a body builder; fist fight in a parking lot, it doesn't matter. I'm getting ready to sell out this building. I'm going to sell out Madison Square Garden one day. This is the American Dream. I'm living it.'
- Dusty Rhodes
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Kevin Sullivan? He's Anthony Hopkins. The Prince of Darkness. The devil himself. Against the 'American Dream' Dusty Rhodes, the chubby plumber's son from Austin, Texas. My God, those billboards go up, and you're going to want to go see it.
- Dusty Rhodes
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We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.
- Deval Patrick
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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
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Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.
- Nicholas Kristof
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The American dream is still to own your home.
- Barry Sternlicht
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
- Dan Rosensweig
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As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
- Rick Danko
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If home ownership is the American dream, then foreclosure certainly is the American nightmare. It destroys more than credit. It destroys lives. And its effects are felt beyond the individual family that it devastates. It shakes our entire economy.
- Lisa Madigan
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There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, 'Nobody's concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.' We need to restore that.
- Steve Scalise
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I'm very proud of the Italian heritage of my great-grandparents, who came here from Italy, and how they helped be a part of the American Dream, and that's something we want to continue to make available to everybody who wants to come here.
- Steve Scalise
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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
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Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead.
- Evan Osnos
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
- Narciso Rodriguez
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'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt.
- Yvonne Orji
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I believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it.
- Ami Bera
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Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.
- Ken Salazar
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You don't have to get married and have a family, like a lot of women try, to live the American Dream. There's nothing wrong if you're in your 40s and don't have kids and are president of your own company.
- Kat Von D
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I am Dusty's son, but I learned the hard way I was never going to be 'The American Dream.' That was difficult for me, and I made some molehills into mountains.
- Goldust
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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
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I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.
- Hollis Stacy
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As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody.
- Pramila Jayapal
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I believe in the American dream. I don't want anyone to take advantage of it, and I don't want anyone to ruin it, especially people who are not grateful to be here, who seemingly hate us and call us racists.
- Jeanine Pirro
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I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.
- Mark Kirk
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When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
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Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
- George Kaiser
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Through protest - especially in the 1950s and '60s - we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigration, was our way into the American Dream. Freedom in this country had always been relative to race, and it was black protest that made freedom an absolute.
- Shelby Steele
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
- Kamala Harris
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I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
- William J. Clinton
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Who doesn't like the American Dream?
- Mike Lindell
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I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
- Gordon Gee
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Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.
- Jon Meacham
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
- Madeleine M. Kunin
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For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.
- Rick Mears
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I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?
- Friedrich St. Florian
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Donald Trump is living proof of the American Dream. A kid from Queens, New York, who made it big. And, yeah - he'll be the first to tell you he isn't perfect. But who is?
- Trish Regan
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There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.
- Jeff Greene
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The American Dream means any person can achieve prosperity through hard work and ingenuity because there are no inherent barriers in our society.
- Anthony Scaramucci
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I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.
- Lauren Greenfield
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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
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The American dream is Chance the Rapper, or 'little Chano from 79th' who hails from Chicago's Southside and became the first artist to win a Grammy without selling one physical copy of his album.
- Steve Stoute
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I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.
- Jeff Denham
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Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'
- Michael Mandelbaum
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In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.
- Richard Dreyfuss
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I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country.
- Shahid Khan
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The American Dream is really money.
- Jill Robinson
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I'm just trying the American dream. To work here in the U.S., you have to commit and be here. For many years, it was back and forth, back and forth, and it didn't work. But I'm always open to working in Spanish.
- Eugenio Derbez
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Not only are we like the epitome of the American dream, we've been successful at the sport for so long that we know the Lopez name will always be part of the taekwondo world.
- Diana Lopez
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I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That's why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.
- Bob McDonnell
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Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.
- Michael Moriarty
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
- Nate Parker
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I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.
- Howard Schultz
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
- Randi Weingarten
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The American dream is under assault.
- James A. Forbes
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
- Vicente Fox
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The American Dream has been defended, in every generation, by the brave men and women willing to fight and die for America. They are our greatest national treasure. They deserve a serious Commander-in-Chief.
- Leon Panetta
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We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.
- Julian Castro
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People are fascinated with the fast life, the easy life. For some reason, that's an American dream, and it goes all the way back to the Edward G. Robinsons and the Cagneys.
- Frank Vincent
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What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there's so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken.
- Chloe Zhao
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