Very impatient, bossy, always late.
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The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I have always been impatient.
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That I don’t give myself enough credit.
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You have to do something like that to get rid of the tension, take your mind off what you are doing.
With all due respect to Procter & Gamble, I wanted to be an entrepreneur.
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.
I’m very proud of that and I started a drug and substance abuse program in middle schools in New York to help the worst performing schools.
There's still much to do, and I'm not slowing down.
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