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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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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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Angela Merkel; she seems wise, compassionate, curiously huggable.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2016 source ↗
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David Attenborough, because he gets to do all the things with wildlife that I dream of.
Jay Z. He’s a mogul. He’s a Sagittarius like me. I love his business moves.
My friend Josie Naughton, the co‑founder and CEO of the charity Choose Love, which supports refugees and displaced people. She left her job working for Coldplay to dedicate her life to this cause.
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Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?
When the Guardian called me a scaremonger for wanting to preserve London’s green belt.
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