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 Bob Woodward said elsewhere, not written here
I don’t know whether I feel pride. I think pride is hubris. I think it is an emotion that if you bask in it, it’s like hate; it will destroy you. So I don’t make those kinds of assessments. I like what I do. I am repeatedly struck by how I have missed part of the story, always.

Academy of Achievement interview, Washington D.C., 1 May 2003 source ↗

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Aziz Sancar Biochemist; Nobel laureate in chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair
I am of course honoured to get this recognition for all the work I’ve done over the years, but I’m also proud for my family and for my native country and my adopted country, and especially for Turkey it’s quite important.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Nobel Prize, 7 October 2015 source ↗
Lars Ulrich Danish drummer; co-founder of Metallica
The one thing I’ll always hold my head up high about is that 32 years later, it’s been quite a ride – it’s been a pretty pure ride, a pretty honest ride, a pretty straight ride – we haven’t done things for ulterior motives or tried to do things for commercial gains or for this or for that, so I feel pretty proud of all of it.
Recorded The Talks interview, 21 November 2013 source ↗
Pelé Brazilian footballer; three-time World Cup winner
At that time nobody had Brazil on the map and suddenly Brazil became a huge football nation. I was very proud because I made Brazil well known all over the world.
Recorded The Talks interview, 7 August 2013 source ↗
Anette Sagen Norwegian former ski jumper and campaigner for women's ski jumping
What I’m most proud of in my ski jumping career is that I helped the sport to get where it is today, with the World Cup, World Championship and the Olympics.
Recorded Written Q&A in the IOC's Athlete Role Model series before Lillehammer 2016, Olympics.com (International Olympic Committee), 2016 source ↗

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Question Which teacher, parent, coach or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them? Relationships
Oh, yes, I had teachers at Wheaton. A community high school history teacher named Elizabeth Duncan who taught American history and was a great teacher. Very forceful, very insistent that we write essays to answer questions, and not short answers. Somebody who through force of personality made history interesting and important.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

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