The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.
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.
Arwen: Go to sleep. Aragorn: I am asleep. This is a dream. Arwen: Then it is a good dream.
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.
I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.
My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
God can turn the impossibile into possibilities. Possibilities become opportunities. Opportunities leads us one step closer to our dreams!
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.
When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?
Dream big and never give up on those dreams. Who knows where they'll take you?
When you're a kid, you have these big dreams and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference
The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.
I think of Superman as the ultimate vanilla hero. He's this perfect refugee, this perfect immigrant from another planet who embodies the American dream.
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
The stars are but tears shed by a miriad of unrequited dreams; each sparks with fire and guides its light homeward when a dream is revealed
I am a dreamer; Dreams are one's reflection, a coherent plan for action is the only spectacle to see the reality of my dreams.
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.