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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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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.
I like to spend time with my family, and also relax at my beach house or on my farm.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2014 source ↗
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Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
In my bed, a hot-water bottle on my tummy, the windows are open, reading a book that I’m already into, chocolate at hand, all with the knowledge that everyone I love and know is happy.
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
When I feel as if the people closest to me are happy and healthy and I'm connected with them, and when I feel as if I'm doing things that are making other people better and happy, then I feel real good. That's when I'm at my peak.
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View profile →Loyalty. Most of my friends have been around me for decades.
At that time nobody had Brazil on the map and suddenly Brazil became a huge football nation. I was very proud because I made Brazil well known all over the world.
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