Bintou Keita: What do you value most in your friends? — FLAPSS

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What do you value most in your friends?

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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.

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Bintou Keita

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General; head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

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That they be intelligent and engaged.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 April 2015 source ↗

Discretion and good cheer.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗

A.J. Jacobs Journalist and author of The Year of Living Biblically

Being willing to listen to my ideas and tell me when they are good and when they are dumb.

Recorded Naomi Imatome-Yun, Blue Zones interview, November 2018 source ↗

Ardal O'Hanlon Irish comedian and actor

I was always a watcher.

Recorded The Guardian, The Guardian, 27 December 2013 source ↗

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Question Who do you turn to when you need advice? Relationships

I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

Recorded Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self

I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

Recorded Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

Question What does love feel like? Relationships

I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

Recorded Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

Question Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought? Money & investment

I have my statement, but I can't deliver [it] because there's something else I have to do before. And in that moment, what came to me was humming, so I did it.

Recorded Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

Question What important truth do very few people agree with you on? Values & belief

I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

Recorded Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

Question What is the most rewarding part of being a parent? Relationships

I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

Recorded Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

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