Henry R. Kravis
Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Our wedding day is tied with the births of my three children as the best days of my life.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?
Craft & work
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2012 source ↗
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A beautiful meal and a glass of wine with my favorite people and lots of laughter ringing around the table.
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Being inside and watching really bad weather outside … and, if it’s after 5:30 P.M., with a glass of Chardonnay in hand.
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Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
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