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“I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.”

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Author:Bill Russell

“The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.”

Giving Trying Mean Dream Can Do Successful Add Definitions Hardest Serving American Dream Serving Others Successful Life Accomplishing Something

Author:George H. W. Bush

“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.”

Dream Speak Language Wish Enjoy Embrace Our Society American Dream

Author:Bobby Jindal

“Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The American dream belongs to all of us.”

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Author:Kamala Harris

“The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.”

States Dream Moving Example Offers Built West American Dream Better Life Pioneers Oklahoma

Author:Mary Fallin

“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.”

“The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“The American Dream is about freedom.”

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Author:Rick Mears

“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.”

Ideas Dream America Politics Nations Heard Notion Giants American Dream Uneducated Fetish Recluse Shuttlecock

Author:Will Durst

“Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.”

Dream Politics Social Economic Theory Capitalism Engines American Dream Highways Free Market Mobility Economic Theory Free Market Capitalism Social Mobility

Author:George W. Bush

“I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.”

Believe Dream I Believe I Believe In American Dream

Author:Carl Paladino

“The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.”

“The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.”

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Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.”

People Dream America Nice Security Safe American Dream Prosperous Prosperous Future

Author:Lee Iacocca

“No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.”

Long Dream Young Dies Prepared Funeral American Dream Die Young

Author:Edgar Friedenberg

“What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.”

People Said Dream American Dream

Author:Carly Fiorina

“American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.”

Heart Dream America Strongest American Dream

Author:Pico Iyer

“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.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mind Real Dream Can Do Fans American Dream You Can Do It Real Things

Author:Jackie Collins

“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.”

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Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.”

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Author:Christopher Bond

“The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.”

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Author:Brian Chesky

“Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at times a little uneasily) the American dream, and even a love story. A great read and a valuable addition to the literature—and I use the word advisedly—of medical training.”

“The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.”

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Author:John Garamendi

“As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.”

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Book:A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America

Source: A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America

“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.”

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Author:Prabal Gurung

“Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.”

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Author:Kamala Harris

“Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.”

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Author:Connie Mack IV

“I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.”

World Said Dream Inspiration Effects Planets Obsession American Dream Requiem Requiem For A Dream

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.”

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Author:Benjamin Jealous

“Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.”

Home Dream Towns Obvious Motherhood Despite Damage Apples Visible American Dream Pie Icons Desolation Coca Cola Apple Pie Home Town Pantheon

Author:James Howard Kunstler

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