Chaka Khan
American singer
I guess lack of patience as well.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Bullying.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 February 2022 source ↗
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Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist.
Not listening to me.
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I was up for Bond and didn’t get it.
All the damn time, it comes with the territory. My family valiantly put up with most of them. Though the older I get, the bolder I am about saying no.
Most days, I’m quite flaky.
Upright.
Quality compost.
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