The question

What is your greatest fear?

Originally asked

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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Bob Woodward

Investigative reporter and author; associate editor of The Washington Post

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I think I dropped the ball here. I should have pushed much, much harder on the skepticism about the reality of WMD; in other words, [I should have] said, 'Hey, look, the evidence is not as strong as they were claiming.'

N/A, N/A, Wikipedia, 1 June 2024 source ↗

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Akio Toyoda President of Toyota Motor Corporation, 2009–2023; chairman from 2023
Everybody is shifting to BEVs, this is the biggest fear for me. Three or four years ago, I was the only one to say to the media that I love smell, I love sound and I love engines, and I want to keep the jobs for engine suppliers.…But it seems to me that I’m the only one. I feel very alone.
Recorded Mat Watson, Carwow, 2026 source ↗
Scott Mills English radio DJ and television presenter
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 October 2022 source ↗

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