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BEING A SOMEBODY : our American dreams  "America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of." - Bono 

"**Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America ."** **- Arnold Scwarzenegger**

 Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike I**s this true of the American dream as well?**



"I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody"- Jay Gatsby, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's //The Great Gatsby// [|Red Carpet] "And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, //The Great Gatsby//, p. 180

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