Christy Turlington Burns
American model
I might speed up a few details, but wouldn’t change anything, other than my dad still being here.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
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Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
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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I wouldn’t because everything is connected with everything else.
Mary McCartney
English photographer and cookbook author
Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity. I’d have become a quantum physicist!
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Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
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