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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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Werner Arber

Microbiologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
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.

Marika Griehsel, 53rd meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany, The Nobel Prize, July 2003 source ↗

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Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
I’m most proud of the fact that we produced broad-based prosperity, where the incomes of the bottom 20% rose more percentage-wise than the incomes of the top 20%, about the same as the incomes of the top 5%. That was across all racial groups, all regional groups, and all income groups, and that we did it while eliminating 600 billion dollars in national debt. And I put America on a path to be debt free so that we’d be able to embrace the challenges of the 21st century, and I think that at a time of yawning inequality, having inclusive prosperity is very important to building support for inclusive societies.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, London, England, 18 October 2017 source ↗
Chun Lee-kyung South Korean former short-track speed skater; four-time Olympic champion
I am the only person who has four golds and one bronze in the Olympic Winter Games in Korea. The record will be broken by someone someday, but I think, I've done what I loved and had a pretty good and successful life as an athlete.
Recorded Written Q&A in the IOC's Athlete Role Model series before Lillehammer 2016, Olympics.com (International Olympic Committee), 2016 source ↗
Paul Kagame President of Rwanda since 2000
Very happy, very proud, apart from the loss of many lives, which can never be corrected, or we can’t do much about it. It’s probably the most expensive part of the struggle. But to have won the war and won the peace for ourselves, because if you look at those years of the war, of the genocide, and they are brought to an end, and then we started building and rebuilding and a sense of reconciliation, a sense of allowing Rwandans to live together as a nation. And now a proud people of Rwanda, and socially made progress politically, significant progress, economically the same. I think we could not have asked for more.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, London, England, 18 October 2017 source ↗
Norman Foster Architect; founder of Foster + Partners and winner of the Pritzker Prize
I would hope that there’s a recognition that in some way or another it has contributed to the breaking down of barriers. Somehow deinstitutionalizing some of those buildings. They might be workplaces. They might be cultural buildings, where under one roof you have the contemplation of great works of art and the studying of the history of art. That might be linked to a degree of innovation, harnessing technology to a good end. I’m bringing an element of joy and uplift to spirits.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, London, England, 18 October 2017 source ↗

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