Identity & self

What is your greatest fear?

256 answers answered between 1999 and 2026 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

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Ina Garten Cookery writer and shop owner
Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2016 source ↗
Gino D'Acampo Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality
Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗
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.
Recorded Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026 source ↗

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