The question

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Originally asked

Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014

Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Adeel Akhtar

British actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I have mixed feelings about being the first non-white actor to win a Bafta. I was very grateful, but it also raised questions. I remember watching The Buddha of Suburbia and Bhaji on the Beach as a kid. British-Asian culture didn’t start in 2017, when I won. It’s weird to think it wasn’t recognised until that point.

unknown, The Guardian, 6 April 2024 source ↗

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Pete Rozelle Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
You can’t make decisions based upon whether it will be popular or not. You have to make decisions based on whether they’re right.
Recorded Rancho Santa Fe, California, Academy of Achievement, 15 May 1991 source ↗
Alexa Chung English television presenter
I don't want to look sexy in photographs. I think it's an easy option. I'm so sick of girls pushing their boobs up in Myspace photographs. I hate the way women want to be "hot" all the time.
Recorded Eva Wiseman, Women, The Guardian, 6 July 2008 source ↗
Tom Kerridge Chef and restaurateur
That everyone understood and respected the food pyramid, the way it all works. Good food doesn’t come cheap. You know, there’s a lot of heart and soul and care that goes in producing as well as cooking. So I’d give a little bit more love to farmers.
Recorded Liz Nicholls, Star Q&A, Round & About Magazine, 28 April 2025 source ↗
Abby Wambach United States international footballer, 2001–2015
For power to stay in power, the powerful have to impose some level of fear over the people that they are in power over. If you have power, you make decisions and if you make decisions you can probably keep power.
Recorded Matthew Hall, Guardian interview, The Guardian, 9 April 2019 source ↗

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