Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2022 source ↗
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What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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View all 256 →I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
And now, you've got nine countries, including, you know, a guy in North Korea. I mean, and there will be, something will happen. And we worried enormously about it when there were two. And we had perfectly, we had really pretty sane leaders in Kennedy and Khrushchev. You know, I mean, you were not dealing with unstable people or anything like that.
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Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026
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To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
Heights, and not getting along with people.
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My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
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