Left Quote by Barkhad Abdi Download Open image “I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.” — Barkhad Abdi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Left Old Seven Seven years Somalia War Whole Whole year Witnessed Year Years
Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which… — K'naan Copy Share Image
The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of… — K'naan Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name. — Hawa Abdi Copy Share Image
During the second world war, my grandad was away for the best part of six years. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear. — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director. — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician. — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge.… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician. — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed. — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
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