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President Obama: he was the first to accomplish something so great in our country as an African American.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2012 source ↗
The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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View all 407 →Barack Obama, for his humility and grace in the face of enormous difficulty.
Nick Cave for his determination to hold a space for public discourse on the deep and difficult and mysterious elements of life.
Daniel Clowes
American cartoonist and writer
It's a fool's errand to waste time admiring anybody.
Alanis Morissette because, in my earlier career, she was a big influence on me and had a feistiness that you didn’t see much of in women in the industry. Also, she has been very vocal about mental health issues.
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I wanted to meet Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained but he had Jamie Foxx in mind – that one hurt.
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