What is the trait you most deplore in others?

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Recorded Henry R. Kravis said elsewhere, not written here
I don’t like those people that only want to be nice to people that they consider their equal or above them as far as maybe they’ve got money or something like that.

John Erling, Voices of Oklahoma, 6 September 2019 source ↗

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To be dishonest. Sometimes people have to be dishonest in order not to hurt, but if someone is basically dishonest, that is a different matter.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
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.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 September 2024 source ↗

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Question If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Identity & self
What I would do differently? When I went through school, I was in a hurry. I was an economics major as an undergraduate, and I was a finance major in graduate school. I was in a hurry to succeed when I got out in the business world. I’m sorry I didn’t take more courses in the humanities and in history and in the arts.
Recorded Academy of Achievement, 12 February 1991 source ↗

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