Any homosexual or transgender people fighting for their rights anywhere in the world.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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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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My sporting hero, Muhammad Ali.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 June 2012 source ↗
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Peter Tatchell is a person very worthy of admiration, but few ever seem to acknowledge him as such.
I love and admire Julia Roberts, one of our Running Wild guests, for the way she has a few close friends, is loyal to her family, doesn’t believe in all the fame stuff and can laugh at herself.
Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.
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Never to have won the French Open.
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