I want my money back.
Andy Warhol, Interview Magazine, 5 March 2018 source ↗
The question
What do you value most in your friends?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.
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View all 83 →A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
Laughter first and foremost, acceptance, and love.
Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
Akio Toyoda
President of Toyota Motor Corporation, 2009–2023; chairman from 2023
Having said that, feeling isolated is tough. In those times, you need a place where you can be by yourself, and friends. Company colleagues won’t do it because they’re generally self-centered (laughs). You need friends who have nothing to do with the company.
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Toyota Group genba leader, Toyota Group genba-leader dialogue, Toyota Times, 29 February 2024
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I regret not buying an Andy Warhol “Marilyn” for $15,000.
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I actually don't know who he is.
Love Never Dies.
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