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

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.

Ben Kingsley

English actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I don't judge others.

Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 9 November 2013 source ↗

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Adam Zagajewski Poet and essayist

Why ardor? Because, I think, there’s not enough of it in our time. Or, at least in our literature. There’s too much lukewarm irony, too much sophisticated indulgence. The tragic dimension disappears in this intellectual environment. That’s why ardor is to be defended.

Recorded Anna Maria Hong, Poets & Writers, 13 August 2004 source ↗

Alan Titchmarsh Gardener and broadcaster

Specialisation leads to extinction. We are learning more and more but about less and less, and one day we will know everything about nothing. There is nothing wrong with being a populist. It does not have to mean dumbing down, as people think.

Recorded Vanessa Thorpe, This much I know, The Observer, 22 June 2013 source ↗

Agnès Varda Film director, photographer and installation artist

Well, I don’t agree with Sartre. I like others.

Recorded Liza Béar, Interview Magazine, 22 May 2009 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 ↗