Lucy Lawless: What lesson has mattered most in your life?

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What lesson has mattered most in your life?

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Lucy Lawless

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That there is time. I doggedly prioritise and pursue tasks, and the day seems to open out and everything does get done. Chill.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2025 source ↗

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Sally Lindsay

Always sleep on any decision.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗

Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025

The number one rule I give them is just not give them the golden rule. Do unto others, I'm not a religious guy, but, I mean, nobody said it any better in a couple thousand years than that, which may be why it's lasted to a certain degree too. I mean, more people are reading a 2000-year-old book about how to behave than anything that anybody's coming up with lately. Now it's got a lot of, particularly the Old Testament, it's got different kinds of stories, to some extent, but if the whole world lived by the golden rule, it would be such a more wonderful society.

Recorded Becky Quick, Interview at the 2026 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 2 May 2026 source ↗

Michael Flatley American step dancer

You’re going to come up against brick walls in life. You’ve got to go over them, under them, around them, or crash through them, but somehow or other you’ve got to get to the other side.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2024 source ↗

Richard Schiff