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What do you value most in your friends?

65 answers answered between 2001 and 2026 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 54 Politics and public life 5 Business and finance 2 Sport 4
Read by age Any age Before thirty 2 In their thirties 1 In their sixties 6 Seventy and beyond 10
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Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Recorded His own pledge letter, written on joining the Giving Pledge in 2010, The Giving Pledge, 2010 source ↗
Pelé Brazilian footballer; three-time World Cup winner
Loyalty. Most of my friends have been around me for decades.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2014 source ↗
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball player and author
Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗
Rita Moreno Actor, singer and dancer
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗
Judy Blume Novelist
I love that my true friends don’t think of me as that Judy, but as the Judy they’ve known for years, a woman, like them. And I love their senses of humor.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 April 2023 source ↗

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