Mistaking shyness for not having anything to say.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Guys who use the word “snot.”
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
The thing actually that I most dislike is cruelty. I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else, just to make themselves feel important it really gets me mad.
When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
Jerry Lewis
American comedian, actor and filmmaker
No sense of humor.
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Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
Peyton Manning.
That they get it.
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: if it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
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