American dream Quote by Mike Nichols Download Open image “There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.” — Mike Nichols ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare American dream Character Dream Dreams Flaws Serious
Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think we just have to be mindful of what that definition of an American dream is. I think we are faced with a… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years.… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream? — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful,… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
So many Korean Americans like me came to this country with the hope of achieving their own American Dream. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
“Let's make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living. To sit on the front steps--whether it's a veranda in a small town or… — Harvey Milk Copy Share
As a kid, I learned from my parents, teachers, coaches, and friends that what mattered most was Truth - to uncover it, share it… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Theres a zoom up in the TV screen Living cancer to our self-esteem yea Cause if this an airless beauty queen But everything aint always what it seems You know what I mean, that Every day somebody say That shes so fast Over a time in her mind She believes that Shes no scurvy because shes curvy But thats such… — Valentinooo_c Copy Share
College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
