Alison Steadman
British actress
Lack of understanding and tolerance.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Discrimination, for any reason.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2019 source ↗
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
The thing actually that I most dislike is cruelty. I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else, just to make themselves feel important it really gets me mad.
Mike Wallace
American journalist
Self-absorption.
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That I would have focused more on languages.
No contest: seeing my grandchildren enjoying each other.
I’m not into self-deploring.
When I was raising my children.
The current occupant of the White House.
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