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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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

GK
Garrison Keillor
Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
My president, a heroic figure—also good- humored, pretty smart, elegant; and if the rest of the world thinks he typifies America, I don’t mind at all.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2009 source ↗

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Kevin Bacon
My wife – for her intelligence, talent, ability to survive this business and be such a fantastic mother to our two kids. (Of course, I have to say that, because she’s sitting right here.)
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 November 2018 source ↗
John Simpson English journalist
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗
Charlie Munger Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
John Wooden, when he was the number one basketball coach in the world. He just said to the bottom five players, “You don't get to play. You're sparring partners.” The top seven did all the playing.
Recorded USC Gould School of Law commencement, 2007, Speakola, 2007 source ↗

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