Caribbean Quotes

• Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Imagination

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Imagination, Doe

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Character, Sea

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caribbean: A Novel”, p.24, Dial Press

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• I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

  Junot Diaz

  Thinking, Apocalypse, Certain

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• I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do think about an arc someone can go. I love Johnny Depp, I love "Pirates of the Caribbean", but I never wanted to play the same character over and over again.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Alex Pettyfer On Set Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

  Jimmy Buffett

  Heart, Texas, Soul

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• There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Next, Firsts, Anticipation

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

  Derek Walcott

  Beauty, Landscape, Surprise

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

  Johnny Depp

  Pirate, Gold, Treasure

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• For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Lost, Found, Certain

  "Fictional character: Captain Hector Barbossa". "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", www.imdb.com. May 19, 2007.

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• It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  United States, Curious, Gender

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• The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Weed, Ocean, Writing

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• You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, America

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• In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

  Zoe Saldana

  Class, Ladders, Levels

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

  Penelope Cruz

  Perfect, Monkeys, States

  Interview With Marion Cotillard, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2009.

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• It's so bad being homeless in winter. They should go somewhere warm like the Caribbean where they can eat fresh fish all day.

  Lady Victoria Hervey

  Funny, Winter, Dumb

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• Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Vacation, Columbus, Spain

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• The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

  Ann Brashares

  Attitude, Pirate, Sparrows

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• I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Fun, Nice

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• Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

  Max Fisher

  Latin, Average, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

  Katherine Dunham

  People, Eclectic Style, Fallen

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• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  Warren Christopher

  Country, Hymns, Two

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• I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Ocean, Thinking

  "Earth Day 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

  Charles Rangel

  Growing, Today, Hospitality

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• Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

  William H. Macy

  Girl, Real, Holy Grail

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