Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
That injustice, ignorance, and fascism win.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My own books being discounted. Oh, and sharks. The reason we Aussies swim so fast is because something much bigger is always trying to eat us.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2024 source ↗
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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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Paul Merson
English footballer and pundit
Going back to addiction.
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View profile →Raising two children. If you can get your kids to adulthood and they’re not voting Tory, doing drugs or collecting Nazi memorabilia, then you deserve a medal.
Not winning any literary prizes.
People who pretend to have perfect marriages. Perfect marriages are like orgasms – many of them are faked.
As a writer who championed women with grit and wit.
Bedpan emptier in a hospital.
When the book of my enemy was discounted.
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