Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Reggie Yates said elsewhere, not written here
Anybody who invests the lion’s share of their time in helping others.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2017 source ↗

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John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.

Recorded Vanity Fair, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗

Abi Morgan Welsh playwright and screenwriter
Malala Yousafzai, Gloria Steinem, Meryl Streep – all suffragettes, in their own way.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2015 source ↗

Melissa McCarthy American actress
Gloria Steinem, because her whole life has been spent trying to help people.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 January 2019 source ↗

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