Proust Questionnaire: James Oliver North's answers

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On Tue, 29 Dec 15 19:35:50 UTC James Oliver North (39) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: A public defender.
Where would you like to live?: New York City. So many criminals with fat bank accounts.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Winning.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Using sex as power.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Sandy Stern, the attorney who defended Rusty Sabich in the book Presumed Innocent. Read it in high school. That's when I knew I wanted to be a lawyer. All those dirty characters. The only innocent one was Sandy.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Robert Kardashian. The most blatantly guilty celebrity in modern times, OJ Simpson, was acquitted, all because of Robert Kardashian.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Kagan and, of course, O'Connor.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Erin Brokovich. Oh wait, she's a real person. I don't have time for reading fiction anymore.
Your favorite painter?: David, down at Sherwin Williams. He painted my entire apartment before I moved in. Gave me a good deal.
Your favorite musician?: Eddie Vedder. Love him.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Ambition.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Power.
Your favorite virtue?: Respectability.
Your favorite occupation?: What do you think? Providing equal justice under law.
Who would you have liked to be?: Nothing else but what I am destined to be--a great lawyer.
Your most marked characteristic?: My brain. But after that would be a smoking hot body. Or so I am told.
What do you most value in your friends?: Being on the same level as I am. Most of my friends are colleagues.
What is your principle defect?: I like sex. So what. I already admitted this as a fault of mine.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Being disbarred.
What would you like to be?: On the Supreme Court. And maybe, eventually, a mother.
What is your favorite color?: Black
What is your favorite flower?: Never thought about it. Something exotic, I guess.
What is your favorite bird?: The falcon.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Nope.
Who are your favorite poets?: Again, I have nothing.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Howard Denehy, head of the firm. Top dog. Founded Denehy, Sharp, and Kincaid.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Didn't I answer this? Sandra Day O'Connor would be my number 1.
What are your favorite names?: I hate it when people call me Luce. Tacky.
What is it you most dislike?: Being the firm's law clerk. If they will give me a chance, I will blow their socks off.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Corrupt judges. Mark Ciavarella tops my list. You don't mess with kids' lives like he did.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Gettysburg Address. Probably the most powerful closing argument in history.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The power to change people's minds.
How would you like to die?: An old woman.
What is your present state of mind?: Clear and sharp.
What is your motto?: Work hard, play harder.

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