Every thought you have has an energy that will either strengthen or weaken you.
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.
What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge already in their possession; enable them to apply simple, sometimes self-evident, truths to the guidance of their common life.
I can't believe I'm saying I'm a politician, but I guess that's what I am now.
Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion. Once order is dissolved, it takes hard measures to restore it