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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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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How would you like to die?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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.
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2012 source ↗
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Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
Their ability to open a bottle of wine.
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A glass of wine, a good dinner with my husband, and a day ahead of me without a deadline is close enough.
Swiftly, painlessly, and old.
The inability to stop talking about themselves when they’re not being interviewed.
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