Pelé
Brazilian footballer; three-time World Cup winner
I like to spend time with my family, and also relax at my beach house or on my farm.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong?
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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Time & hindsight
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In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” —Emma Lazarus. Perfect happiness exists only in my imagination at the moment.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2020 source ↗
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Lily Tomlin
Comedian and actor
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
Being at home with Brian and the dogs.
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View profile →I can understand if you think that I'm disrespecting the flag by kneeling, but it is because of my utmost respect for the flag and the promise it represents that I have chosen to demonstrate in this way. When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our country's ultimate symbol of freedom — because I believe it is my responsibility, just as it is yours, to ensure that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country.
Even more simply, you can ask yourself this question: "Do I truly care about equality for all people in this country?" If the answer is yes, then demand to be a better, more educated, more empathetic version of yourself. And demand the same of every single person you know.
I am kneeling because I have to do something. Anything. We all do.
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Humor and honesty. And, like me, they always think the unnecessary last drink is a great idea.
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