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 Arthur Ashkin said elsewhere, not written here
I didn’t realise I’m the oldest ever! So I just about made it, huh? Because you can’t be dead and win … If you’re a winner of the National Inventors Hall of Fame you can be dead. I won that prize a couple of years ago and I was very proud of that. That is the most, I would say, most important prize I’ve won.

Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, The Nobel Prize, 2 October 2018 source ↗

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László Krasznahorkai Novelist; Nobel laureate in literature
I’m very happy and I’m very proud, because to be in the line which contains so many really great writers and poets gives me power to use my original language, the Hungarian language. I am really very proud and very happy to use this little language.
Recorded Jenny Rydén, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Nobel Prize, October 2025 source ↗
Brendan Rodgers Northern Irish football manager; former manager of Liverpool, Leicester City and Celtic
I think becoming a manager in the first place because my journey was different - the path to becoming a manager. That is the biggest achievement for me.
Recorded Kelly Somers, BBC Sport's The Football Interview, 18 October 2025 source ↗
Norman Schwarzkopf United States Army general; commander of coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War
A man does not get to write his own epitaph. But if I were to write mine it would say the following: He loved his family, and he loved his troops, and they loved him — period.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Las Vegas, Nevada, 26 June 1992 source ↗
Goran Bregović Bosnian composer and musician; former Bijelo Dugme leader and film composer
One of the things I’m proudest of is that today is a Friday, and hundreds of Gypsy bands will be playing for tips, and they will play a lot of my songs. I like the idea that because of that, some kid will have marmalade on his bread.
Recorded Robin Denselow, Guardian interview on Three Letters from Sarajevo, The Guardian, 27 February 2019 source ↗

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