Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball player and author
Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
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Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
To place faith over facts.
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