Ralph Ineson
English actor and narrator
My kids, for the jokes. Some of them are pretty bad.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To my Latin teacher – I was very naughty.
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Cynthia Nixon
American actress and politician
Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
My grandma, who died a few years ago, because I wasn’t able to see her on my last visit to Georgia.
Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
I've mentioned that we strongly prefer to use cash rather than Berkshire stock in acquisitions. A study of the record will tell you why: If you aggregate all of our stock-only mergers (excluding those we did with two affiliated companies, Diversified Retailing and Blue Chip Stamps), you will find that our shareholders are slightly worse off than they would have been had I not done the transactions. Though it hurts me to say it, when I've issued stock, I've cost you money.
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His letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in the 1997 annual report, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., February 1998
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