Barkhad Abdi Quotes

I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

Barkhad Abdi

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: somali
  • Birth: April 10, 1985

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I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.

Angus Young

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My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Jeff Probst

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I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.

Jeff Koons

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You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

John Schneider

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I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

Amanda Hearst

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Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to many live comedy performances going on in any city I'm in, and each of us is trying to be the best at what we do. I don't think of it as a competition so much as a thriving comedy economy.

Trevor Noah

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Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

Mitt Romney

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I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.

Julia Roberts

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There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had some recovery in manufacturing employment as the economy's recovered.

Janet Yellen

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If I don't go to the gym and work out, I look like a bag of bones. I go three times a week usually and it's nearly all weights work to help with definition.

Jonas Armstrong

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I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.

Derek Blasberg

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If I'm not completely daunted, I'm not interested.

Colin Morgan

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