Seeing my family thrive and being underwater.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Spending time with my family—with no phone, no fax, and no meetings.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2003 source ↗
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Being surrounded by my friends and family. Just listening to them interacting, laughing, sharing. It is the culmination of everything I could have hoped for.
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
When I feel as if the people closest to me are happy and healthy and I'm connected with them, and when I feel as if I'm doing things that are making other people better and happy, then I feel real good. That's when I'm at my peak.
Being at home with Brian and the dogs.
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I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.
My mother-in-law, Eunice Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, and my father-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who founded Job Corps and was the first director of the Peace Corps.
I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in 1978.
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