Actor, director and producer
Recorded · The Talks · 2015
Being a father teaches you very quickly that you are not the center of your own universe. That’s one of the gifts of having to wipe poop!
Relationships
Love, friendship & family
Five questions about who formed you, what friends are for, love, parenting, and who you turn to.
5 questions, 354 answers on the record, from 350 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
Worth reading
What has been most rewarding about being a parent?
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1997-2009; Nobel Peace Prize 2005
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2006
I think it’s more modeling. I never bring in my children and say, “Listen, these are the values you should follow in life.” I think it’s a modeling by my wife and me.
Musician, singer and songwriter
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2004
Boy, being a parent is a hard job, I think, because in parenting you want your kids to like you. Too much sometimes.
Every question in this questionnaire
- Which teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them? 57
- Which quality in your friends matters most to you? 65
- How would you describe what love feels like to you? 213
- What has been most rewarding about being a parent? 7
- When you need counsel, who is the first person you call? 12
Who has answered
Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
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AS
2 answers
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Edmund HillaryMountaineer and explorer; first ascent of Everest, 1953
2 answers New Zealand 1919–2008
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Maya AngelouPoet, memoirist and civil rights activist
2 answers United States 1928–2014
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MEMohamed ElBaradei
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1997-2009; Nobel Peace Prize 2005
2 answers Egypt b. 1942
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