Dominican People Quotes

#1. I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

Pedro Martinez

#2. My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

Alfonso Soriano

#3. The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

Tom Robbins

#4. I'm done peeing now."
"Thank you for letting me know.

Jessica Park

#5. From Arawaks he later met on Hispaniola (the island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) he learned of other people to the south, whom the Spanish called the Cariba or Caniba, from which we get the words "Caribbean" and "cannibal.

Lincoln Paine

#6. I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Paul Auster

#7. I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

Junot Diaz

#8. Unboxing is a new voyeuristic phenomenon that's erotic and technical at the same time.

Jason Merkoski

#9. My partnership with YouTube is one that I really, really treasure and I want to carry through. I mean, I don't just say it because I work with them; I genuinely am a fan of YouTube, so that's where I'd want to see my content.

Lilly Singh

#10. When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican ... there are not a lot of rich people there.

Alfonso Soriano

#11. I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

Albert Pujols

#12. You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.

Junot Diaz

#13. I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

Kirk Acevedo

#14. Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

Robin Lim

#15. My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.

Selenis Leyva

#16. Those who enjoy God's presence feast on His Word as if it was the tastiest treat in the world. But

Asheritah Ciuciu

#17. Be a positive evidence collector

Karen Salmansohn

#18. Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic today): "In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive." Columbus

Brian D. McLaren

#19. Every woman has a distinctive sense of beauty which is uniquely charming and euphoric.

Debasish Mridha

#20. The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

Henry Louis Gates

#21. I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

Vince Gilligan

#22. If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

Patrick Whitesell

#23. The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. He is capable of seeing what is beautiful because he carries beauty within himself, for the world is a mirror and gives back to each man the reflection of his own face.

Paulo Coelho

#24. People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

Junot Diaz