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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 February 2026 source ↗
It is necessary, I believe, to accept this idea, not only for science, but also for other things; it is of great value to acknowledge ignorance. It is a fact that when we make decisions in our life we don't necessarily know that we are making them correctly; we only think that we are doing the best we can – and that is what we should do.
Trust my instincts.
Redemption. People can be redeemed, goals can be redeemed.
That I can’t control it.
Hopefully we have life in the minds and hearts of the people we interacted with.
A net positive from my time on Earth.
Flashes of hubris.
A strong sense of being loved and a hopefulness for their life ahead.
Yesterday because I was being paid to do it on stage.
I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”
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