Ricky Wilson
Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs
I might have carried on doing The Voice.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would edit my worry, because I suffer from anxiety, which ruins some moments.
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Christy Turlington Burns
American model
I might speed up a few details, but wouldn’t change anything, other than my dad still being here.
Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
In particular, my decision to sell McDonald's was a very big mistake. Overall, you would have been better off last year if I had regularly snuck off to the movies during market hours.
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His letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in the 1998 annual report, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., February 1999
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Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
I sent off the letter. I probably made a technical mistake by giving it to a journalist before hearing from the Prime Minister because this journalist was working for a Sunday newspaper and gave it enormous press, and I think quite rightly the Prime Minister was annoyed that I had not given him the opportunity but never mind.
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When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.
As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
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