Hans Zimmer
Film composer
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
What do you value most in your friends?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
Those who are both loyal and can cook.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2019 source ↗
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Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2009–present
Find the friends who do that. Find the friends who never tell you that you can’t do it, but who point you in the right direction, hold you when you fail, and push you when you need the push. Those are hard friends to value sometimes, but they are the best of friends.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Recorded
His own pledge letter, written on joining the Giving Pledge in 2010, The Giving Pledge, 2010
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Cooking out with my closest friends and laughing until we are crying.
This year's a pretty good year.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
My niece, Petra Janney, who got her pilot’s license to rescue animals from rural kill shelters and have them placed with different pet adoption agencies.
People who punch down.
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