Dieting.
Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2001 source ↗
The question
What problem are you still trying to solve?Originally asked
Lifehacker, to people about their working day, How I Work
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Agnès Varda
Film director, photographer and installation artist
Poverty in the world. Injustice.
Ahmed Zewail
Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999
We still don’t understand the way a protein folds the way it does. I mean it’s an amazing thing.
Recorded
Sture Forsén and David Dishart, Nobel Prize interview, NobelPrize.org, 12 December 1999
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Alex Honnold
Rock climber; first person to free solo El Capitan
Anyway, it's very much a work in progress, but I'm basically just hoping to do something useful in the world besides just climbing rocks...
Richard Ford
Novelist and short-story writer
I sometimes I have the inability to see how I can do what I need to do at a high enough level for me to do it.
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Pain and aging.
Conversationalist.
David Spade’s assistant.
My inability to have romantic relationships.
Morphine home care.
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