What would you like to be remembered for?

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

A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Arthur Ashkin said elsewhere, not written here
I invented optical levitation.

Hilary Brueck, Business Insider interview at Ashkin's home, 26 January 2019 source ↗

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Sonya Yoncheva Opera singer
Oh, yes, absolutely. I have two children, and often I think about them and how when I’m gone, they will be here listening to an old CD of mine, thinking, “At least I can I can hear her voice.” I think this is very charming. It’s very nice. And then, of course, I also think about the other generations of opera singers coming behind me… It’s so important that they can have a real testimony of how it was in our ears. I think that what stands the test of time is really the memory of people hearing us singing somewhere.
Recorded The Talks, 27 July 2022 source ↗
As a man who tried to respect everyone, treating them with a smile and with due regard, despite the limitations of being human.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗

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Question What are you most proud of? Identity & self
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.
Recorded 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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