James Gray Quotes

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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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Dad
  • Jesus

• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Different
  • Dream

• The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Money
  • American

• It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Night

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Time
  • American
  • Study

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Name

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Great
  • Book
  • American

• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • World
  • American

• Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • American
  • Beginning
  • Beliefs

• Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

  

  Florence King
  • American
  • Marriage
  • Pay

• Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Action
  • Government

• Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Work
  • American
  • Culture

• SiriusXM has been an unbelievable way for us to share music. Songs move a lot faster there than they do on terrestrial, so hopefully we can continue to partner with satellite radio as a way to share as much music as possible with our fans.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Music
  • Partner

• Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Censorship

• 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
  • American
  • Dream