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Sheryl Crow
Award-Winning Singer and Songwriter
I'm from a small town. I have small town ethics. I feel like a little kid still from Middle America, and nobody ever told me that I couldn't do something. I felt like I had the biggest safety net from people in my hometown who were constantly saying, "If you work hard, you can have what you want," and I think that's what America is founded on. It's founded on the right to observe whatever religious beliefs you have. It's based on the possibility of being great, of finding yourself, of making money, of making an impact. It's a pretty amazing idea that you can grow up in a place where you're being handed a ticket that you can write yourself, to take yourself anywhere in this country and to speak your mind and to educate people and to really just create your own dream and live it.
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Sam Donaldson
ABC News Correspondent
Now, my goal when I came to Washington was to some day, some day, earn $10,000 a year. I thought if I could earn $10,000 a year I could write back to El Paso, Texas and say, "Look at me." I've done a little better than that. But I guess my point is, there was no money in the news business when I started in it. That was not the goal, to make money. And I never thought about being famous. It didn't occur to me that that was going to happen to me. I simply enjoyed the work. I think people ought to think about their goals, not in terms of, "I'm going to make millions of dollars," or "I'm going to win the Nobel Prize," if you're a scientist, or "I'm going to win an Oscar," if you're an actor. You think in terms of what you'd like to accomplish in your field, what you'd like to do. And then, if you're lucky enough to be able to do that, these things may come, or they may not. But they're not the goal. It's something else that's the goal. And then material benefits, or other so-called benefits, will flow from that.
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Rita Dove
Former Poet Laureate of the United States
For a long time, the American dream meant, you know, a chicken in every pot and a Frigidaire, right? You know, "You need a Frigidaire in the kitchen." And now we're beginning to realize that the American dream really is not about uniformity, but it's about -- I don't want to say diversity. What I want to say is, it's more like a mosaic. It's not a melting pot, it's a mosaic, and we all contribute our tiles to making up that big picture. And that's glorious. That's nothing to be afraid of.
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