Intolerance, which is never far from stupidity.
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People who make you wait around for them.
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Bryn Terfel
Welsh bass-baritone singer
Unfriendliness.
Anne Enright
Novelist and short-story writer
I find it really interesting the way people are drawn to power, usually male power, sometimes in its dark mode. I wonder what they get from it. My experience of bastards is that there is very little material benefit gained from being in their company, though you feel there might be, any minute. Or you get something for a while and then the polarity switches. It’s a huge con. Trump made the mechanism clear – in this, I think he is a timely figure.
Jerry Lewis
American comedian, actor and filmmaker
No sense of humor.
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