"It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who……" — Gabriel Byrne
"It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'"
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Gabriel Byrne
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29 Quotes by Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne has 29 quotes on this site.
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that…
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the…
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep…
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What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of…
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are…
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and…
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind…
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From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who…
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Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under…
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I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive.…
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I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in…
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Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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