Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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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.

Recorded Martha Stewart said elsewhere, not written here
I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.

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

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Monica Ali British writer, novelist
Clive Stafford Smith. He campaigns for prisoners on death row in the US.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2011 source ↗
Joseph Fiennes English actor
Aung San Suu Kyi: an extraordinary humanitarian fighting for democracy in a Burmese dictatorship.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
Mario Molina Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
there are really very many. Again, as a child, it was obviously those scientists which had lived in the past that had made such an important mark in science history.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, 1996, 1996 source ↗

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