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The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.


Raquel Cepeda

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When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
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ALBERT PUJOLS We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.
DANIEL CABRERA We have to eliminate [the Dominican Republic]. We can't both be in the final.
DAVE CONCEPCION I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
MALCOLM X That's for my Dominican [games]. I do that all the time in the Dominican.
FERNANDO RODNEY I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
SAMMY SOSA What Sammy Sosa has done for the Dominican Republic, that's what I think I can do for Haiti.
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CARLOS ZAMBRANO My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gyps...
CYRILLE AIMEE The Holy Land is everywhere
BLACK ELK My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and...
THOMAS PEREZ My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER Smugglers are constantly looking for alternate routes. They think the chances of getting caught goin...
IVAN ORTIZ I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
RAQUEL WELCH Speed has always been my game. It's how I got signed out of the Dominican Republic and it's what got...
WILLY TAVERAS We'll be a pretty competitive club. But when you're in a pool with the Dominican Republic and Venezu...
GLENN WILLIAMS Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - b...
JIMMY CARTER My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continen...
HILL HARPER I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.
LORETTA LYNN I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have t...
PRINCE ROYCE This is a big game for us. This is one of the biggest games ever for my country. Everybody says the ...
VICTOR ZAMBRANO When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities i...
ÓSCAR ARIAS Music is my life.
ROBERT ILER ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Freedom is not given, it is taken'
NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE People have supported us. We haven't drawn as many fans as the U.S., Mexico or the Dominican Republi...
MARCO LANDI As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once under...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I...
GARY ARTHUR The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.
POPE JOHN PAUL II On Veterans Day, I can't help think of my uncles who volunteered for the service after fleeing a...
THOMAS PEREZ [Tuesday] is the first day I took batting practice in the [United States], and I can see the ball re...
CRISTIAN GUZMAN Music is my life. It is sacred.
JIMMY CHAMBERLIN The rule has been in there. I took Tennessee a few years ago to the Dominican Republic. They have tr...
BUZZ PETERSON My parents both came to the United States from the Dominican Republic, and they were deeply grateful...
THOMAS E. PEREZ We make enough money to at least donate something we can send down there to help out. We challenge a...
DAVID ORTIZ You know all about love, but that is not enough. You must also learn that hate comes from God as wel...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS It's important to use pure, not imitation extracts. The flavor of pure extracts is intense and unmis...
RODRIGO LARENAS The Holy Spirit is a GPS in my life.
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ALFONSO SORIANO Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.
ARLO GUTHRIE The whole world is my native land
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M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign.
MY MORNING JACKET At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos
MY MORNING JACKET You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain,
MY MORNING JACKET This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never list...
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DIANE SLOAN So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious edu...
ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI The lack of opportunities is resulting in youth turning to risky behaviors which is affecting the Do...
CAROLINE ANSTEY Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.
DYLAN THOMAS My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
EURIPIDES I can't live without the Holy Spirit. He is my Oxygen!
тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ They like this work overseas because it is from the Holy Land. Jesus blessed the olive tree.
ANTON SHOMALI I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.
DJ KHALED Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
STEVE BURNS Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
LENNY KRAVITZ This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwo...
WOODY GUTHRIE This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island, From the redwo...
WOODY GUTHRIE Brockton is the mecca for bad drivers.
LLOYD JONES By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin Ame...
STEPHEN KINZER Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macor...
BILL DEDMAN And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they sai...
BIBLE Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
JOHN STEINBECK It was an ugly measure. The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to sacrifice its life for its belie...
GHOLAMHOSSEIN ELHAM For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrast...
JARED DIAMOND Some say the reason it's a mecca is the altitude. But I never used that in my prime. I think there's...
BENJI DURDEN I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my...
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
DYLAN THOMAS I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it...
JUNOT DIAZ I'm not a fast starter in spring training, and I need to be careful. I want the Dominican Republic t...
FRANCISCO CORDERO My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especi...
BRIGITTE BARDOT Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jes...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He...
BILL DEDMAN My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents ...
CYRILLE AIMEE Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
GUNTHER SCHULLER Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
BIBLE My soul sings joyful praise to the Holy one.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA But he's played a lot of baseball, you can tell, ... He's got a more natural flow. The kids in his c...
WILLIE RANDOLPH the land of my fathers . . . . I leave it to my fathers.
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