I find most children quite inspiring.
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Writer and feminist organiser
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
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Steven Spielberg. I can’t think of many people who have improved the human experience as much as that one man.
Noah Harari
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On a personal level, the friend who is a single mum raising two kids by herself during this Covid era. She is a real hero. If a historical personality, I choose Mikhail Gorbachev, who probably saved the world from world war three.
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