The question

What is your greatest fear?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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Mark Cuban

Entrepreneur and investor; owner of the Dallas Mavericks

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I was never a big risk taker. When I started my first businesses, I really had nothing to lose. I was sleeping on the floor. I had five roommates in a three-bedroom apartment. My car was a junker. I had absolutely nothing to lose when I started MicroSolutions, so it really was never a risk.

Kiplinger, Kiplinger Q&A, 1 November 2013 source ↗

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There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2015 source ↗
Walking into a room filled with friends and family singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I am completely naked.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2014 source ↗
Andrew Weil Physician; founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona
Society’s inability to encourage people to make better lifestyle choices that really prevent disease and promote health.
Recorded Katy Koontz, Unity Magazine, 1 August 2022 source ↗

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