Convince myself that walking two miles a day isn’t boring.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 9 November 2012 source ↗
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
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Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.
Alain de Botton
Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
I'd grow more hair and try to be less mortal.
To be more outgoing. I love being home, but sometimes I feel guilty that I like it too much.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
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Guys who use the word “snot.”
Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
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Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
That they get it.
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