The question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Noam Chomsky, Barack Obama.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2015 source ↗
Any mother with young children who is also doing a full-time job.
Bryan Stevenson.
Julie Hesmondhalgh – she’s the kindest, brightest, most truthful woman. She’s so talented, works hard, cares about the right things, puts her energy in the right places. I adore her.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute. The work he and the team are doing to reduce extreme poverty is phenomenal.
Still nuclear annihilation.
Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
I don’t remember the womb, so … my first taste of ice cream? First night in a girl’s bed: happy.
Enrique Iglesias, Alex Honnold, Andrea Bocelli, Florence Welch, Sinéad O'Connor, Elisabeth Moss
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