Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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Recorded John Simpson said elsewhere, not written here
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗

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Suzi Quatro American-British rock musician
My sister Arlene, who is 75 and on marriage number seven. I admire her hopefulness.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 November 2016 source ↗
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Joseph Opio, a Ugandan writer who has discovered the secrets of happiness.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2016 source ↗

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I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗

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