John Mellencamp
Singer and songwriter
It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Eating ice cream in the cinema, watching the trailers, with the main film about to start.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2022 source ↗
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
When I feel as if the people closest to me are happy and healthy and I'm connected with them, and when I feel as if I'm doing things that are making other people better and happy, then I feel real good. That's when I'm at my peak.
Danielle Steel
Novelist
Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.
Everybody around me is happy, my spirit is right, and just nothing but peace and tranquility in the building.
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