Sofie Gråbøl
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I'd have a good, encouraging start in school – I think I'd be a different person, with fewer anxiety attacks.
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Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would have started therapy earlier.
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Warren Buffett
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In particular, my decision to sell McDonald's was a very big mistake. Overall, you would have been better off last year if I had regularly snuck off to the movies during market hours.
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His letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in the 1998 annual report, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., February 1999
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Kelsey Grammer
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My sister’s death – I would love to meet her kids. [Karen Grammer was 18 when she was abducted, raped and murdered.]
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I practise stoicism. Not the stiff-upper-lip, modern stuff, but the ancient Greek philosophy. You have to accept what you can’t change. I try to face forwards all the time. When that doesn’t work, I think about buying a machine gun.
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