Lucy Lawless: What worries you about getting older?

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I don’t want to get into an early death spiral, when you’re scaling down your life unnecessarily because you’ve already been there or done that. I never want to stop adventuring.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2025 source ↗

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Esther Rantzen

Possible dementia.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

Gregory Porter

Losing the people that I love.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗

Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025

I go in every day to the office. I don't accomplish hardly anything. I mean, in terms of – it just takes me way longer to do things. And Greg is so good. It was kind of embarrassing how good he is, because he has covered – you know, we've got about 200 businesses within Berkshire, you know, that came about, and I can't name the manager's names or their wives names, or – and I haven't seen them, you know, in a long time. It's easier just to write the letter once a year and kind of do my own thing. Greg covers more ground in a day than I would in a week, even when I was at my peak, let alone my present condition.

Recorded Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026 source ↗

David Ajala