What are you most proud of?

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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions

Vogue's 73 Questions repeatedly asks respondents to select the work, relationship, or achievement that makes them proudest.

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Recorded Cristina Duarte said elsewhere, not written here
Melissa, to have the opportunity in my life to serve my country for 10 years as Minister of Finance and Planning was the best gift that my life gave to me. I was born under the colonial period. I experienced the independence of my country.

Melissa Fleming, Awake at Night podcast, series 7, United Nations, 2023 source ↗

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Yaya Touré Ivorian former footballer; Barcelona, Manchester City and Ivory Coast midfielder, now a coach
What I'm the most proud of is the opportunity to help City to start the journey to be one of the elite clubs in England now.
Recorded BBC Sport interview, published as a Q&A transcript, 20 December 2025 source ↗
Dominique Gisin Swiss former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic downhill champion
I’m proud, that despite many tough moments, with lots of injuries, I never gave up and made it to the top of an Olympic podium.
Recorded Written Q&A in the IOC's Athlete Role Model series before the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games, Olympics.com (International Olympic Committee), 2016 source ↗
David Boies Trial lawyer; chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner
I think that cases are, in some senses, are a little like children. I have six children. It’s hard to say which one I’m most proud of. But I think that certainly the marriage equality cases are cases that I am enormously proud of. I think that we have in those cases contributed to a really important change in this country. The cases that I’ve done in the area of racial equality as a young lawyer working in Mississippi, and then later on I successfully sued the Republican National Committee on behalf of the Democratic National Committee in 1986, I think it was, to stop the RNC from targeting black and minority districts with voter ID, voter security kinds of tactics. That litigation I’m pretty proud of.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, San Francisco, California, 14 September 2014 source ↗
Andre Russell Jamaican cricketer; West Indies all-rounder and twice a T20 World Cup winner
Definitely [my best moment was] the 2016 World Cup, that semi-final game against India where I brought the team home, me and Lendl Simmons, and obviously the start that we got from the other batters,
Recorded Cricket West Indies interview before his farewell T20Is at Sabina Park, ESPNcricinfo, 19 July 2025 source ↗

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