Prabal Gurung Quotes

I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.

My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.

My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind a podium in the front of a room. That journey, from behind that bar to behind this podium, goes to the essence of the American miracle - that we're exceptional not because we have more rich people here. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here.

I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

I believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it.

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way.

You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

The American Dream

I'm just an American dream.

I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it's still there. I'm certainly a beneficiary of it.