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What fills you with the most pride?

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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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Robert Ballard

Marine geologist and oceanographer; discoverer of the wreck of the Titanic

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I would say the discovery of the hydrothermal vents off the Galápagos Islands. That really turned science upside down. Until that time, there were a lot of things we didn’t know about the ocean. We didn’t know why it was salty. We didn’t know why it had the chemistry that it had.

Academy of Achievement interview, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 13 February 1991 source ↗

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Sarina Wiegman Dutch football manager; head coach of the England women's national team
I really love the medals but what I’m proud of most, absolutely most, is that now young girls have perspective, young girls can play football and young girls can wear shirts [with players’ names on],
Recorded Suzanne Wrack, Interview on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, before the 2023 Women's World Cup, The Guardian, 14 July 2023 source ↗
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 ↗
Werner Arber Microbiologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes
If you go into the field of medicine, I think any, very active protein like, let’s say interferons have been isolated, thanks to these techniques and then the question was, how should one apply them? In which kind of medical problems? Some, there were some deceptions but there were also discoveries that in certain other fields these products were very useful. Another example which has been widely successful is the product of human insulin which made medicine largely independent of insulins harvested from living animals and I think if one looks at these things these are really very good examples.
Recorded Marika Griehsel, 53rd meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany, The Nobel Prize, July 2003 source ↗
Daron Acemoglu Economist; Nobel laureate in economic sciences for work on institutions and prosperity
I’m proud of all my heritages, and I’m delighted that I have been able to learn from many different experiences.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, The Nobel Prize, October 2024 source ↗

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