Sentences with phrase «american dream had»

The show is a story of an era in which the American dream had never been better, nor worse.

That's because the US economy is on its strongest roll ever, bolstered by lower taxes, improved trading agreements, growing American confidence, happiness, comfort, freedom and the American dream has been kindled again.

To her credit she knows, better than most, that the American dream has moved, in these last decades of the 20th century, into a desperate search for the sacred and mystical.

The presiding judge continued that «I am at my wits end to comprehend how a couple with three children living in the American dream would agree to relocate to Ghana because they were enticed by plaintiff to bring her son to Ghana to baby - sit.

Intentional or not, Wiseau is walking, talking freedom in leather vests and L'Oreal # 1BB Velvet Black hair dye, the most honest assessment of the American Dream we've seen in decades: someone with enough fuck - you money to be able to wear as many belts as he goddamn wants.

If it'd been a good movie, if it'd been a good script, American Dream would've given Parker an easy Best Supporting Actress nomination.

9) In his groundbreaking book, «The Rage of a Privileged Class,» published in 1993, Newsweek Contributing Editor Ellis Cose eloquently illustrated how the American Dream has remained a dream deferred for many black college grads, even those with advanced degrees.

Their lifelong pursuit of the American dream has become a wake - up call: time to try something else.

Part of the American dream has always been the tidy house with the white picket fence, the mortgage interest of which is tax deductible.

the american dream has become a nightmare for too many.

However, The American Dream would work just fine without the immersive nature a headset provides due to its sheer originality and hilariousness.

On the other hand, as Brett Wallach noted, «The American Dream has been globalized.»

Already shifts are happening on a large scale as more and more people begin to see that the American Dream has turned into a nightmare.

From the plenitude economy to a holiday survival kit, the Center for a New American Dream has long been at the forefront of the notion that more stuff doesn't necessarily mean more happiness.

Over the years, the American Dream has changed in a number of important ways.

Secretary Castro began his address by saying the prescription to the American Dream has always been working hard, saving your money and investing in yourself, often by getting a great education.

Fast - forward today, while many are beginning to become successful and think about the future, their American Dream has evolved.

That's because the US economy is on its strongest roll ever, bolstered by lower taxes, improved trading agreements, growing American confidence, happiness, comfort, freedom and the American dream has been kindled again.

The American dream has not been changed, he says.

As I have traveled to Asia, Europe, and South America, much of my thinking about the American dream has been broadened.

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While Perez Del Cid was born in Guatemala and raised in Brooklyn by a family of entrepreneurs, he had his family's dream at heart: To introduce Guatemalan coffee to the American market.

And I think the subject that I would talk about mostly is a level of compassion and empathy that we need to try to recognize that the only way our society and the promise of America and the American dream can continue to exist is to ensure the fact that those people who were at the lower end have the same opportunity that people have with the right ZIP code in America.

Israeli immigrant Antonio has worked tirelessly over the last 30 years to make his American dream a reality.

As a firm, we have dedicated ourselves to advancing the American dream of economic opportunity for all, including programs for our employees and our Corporate Responsibility initiatives to build wealth and economic mobility among families and entrepreneurs of color.

The biggest provider of mortgages for the past 50 years, Fannie Mae, had as their slogan, «We make the American Dream come true.»

In turn, America will become more competitive in global markets, and all our citizens will be able to realize the American dream, just as Howard Schultz has done.

Bilinkis had always dreamed about being acquired by a big American office - supply company; now he sometimes dreamed that he would be the one doing the buying.

Stock options have become part of the American dream and the managerial weapon of choice for the savviest companies.

They call it the Living the Dream Fund, and since its 2009 revamp, the program has awarded about $ 1.2 million to American wrestlers, according to The Times.

They felt the rug had pulled out from under them, and they no longer had access to the American dream,» said Nottage.

We have a society built on the story of the American Dream: if you work hard and build a great business, you can succeed.

«People don't feel as if they are going to have access to the American dream,» he says.

In a way, we have lived the American dream and I'll continue to do everything I can, as a CEO and a citizen, to extend that dream to all Americans, to advance the ideals that we are celebrating tonight and to uphold the beautiful, powerful promise etched into our constitution 230 years ago.»

It's interesting to me how many young people have redefined the American dream for themselves.

Ulbricht's sentencing has sparked protests from proponents of Internet freedom, Vice notes, including movie star Russell Brand, who argued that Ulbricht was merely achieving the «American Dream.»

Equity crowdfunding had promised to bring ideas to life, businesses to fruition and the American Dream back into play.

«I'll say something to all of you guys that I think the American people need to hear... he's really evaluating talent and so if people in the United States have lived the American dream and have been able to amass that kind of wealth, well certainly they're super talented or in what the president - elect says they're actually killers,» he said during a gaggle at Trump Tower, according to a pool report.

«The show has become a reinforcement of the American Dream,» Cuban told D, a Dallas magazine.

But what a lot of people don't consider is that we have watched our own mothers and fathers work their entire lives, slaving away for the American dream, only to obtain the house with the picket fence and still be unhappy.

It means having a chance at the kind of life described in 1931 by James Truslow Adams when he coined the term «American Dream»: a life that's «better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.»

We are so lucky to have this opportunity to go for the American dream.

But American Apparel's board also shouldn't dream for a second that simply having a new code is going to fix the company's problems, any more than simply removing Charney from the helm will do so.

Not about the notion of unhindered upward mobility itself — even the most optimistic have long since acknowledged that particular American Dream is more myth than reality.

Most Asian - American children want to have a big dream.

But even as Homer, Marge and their three kids, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, surpassed the Stone Age family's six - season run, no one dreamed the show would continue for a quarter of a century, giving it a second record as the longest - running scripted TV series in American history.

Also stymied by the American immigration system — which meets only a fraction of the demand for economic green cards each year — was South African Jonathan Hitchcock, 34, who was at first disheartened that his «dream job» would be shunted to Canada.

But this growing segment of the population has aspirations not dissimilar to the «American Dream,» with a nice home, car and college education for their children.

Kim has proven that tenacity and unflappable confidence are recipes for achieving the American Dream and building a multi-million dollar business.

At the Democratic National Convention that year in Charlotte, N.C., the congresswoman pulled out all the stops, and warned that a Romney presidency would negatively impact middle - class voters, women, minorities and the American dream itself.

«I had this great American dream that got broken,» Mr. Négri said, speaking by telephone from Lyon, France.