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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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Jorge Moreira da Silva

Executive Director of UNOPS; former Portuguese Minister of Environment

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Yes, it's one of the things that I'm most proud of is the Iberian lynx was extinct. It was declared under extinction and with a new project funded by the European Union, Portugal and Spain started the process of recovering the Iberian lynx. And it took maybe 15 years to recover with the lynx being incubated first in a facility. And then finally there was a day where we have to feel sufficiently comfortable to release the first lynx and then to have the normal reproductive path in the environment. And it worked. Can you imagine? Even a species can be recovered. So, if there is a will, there is the way.

Melissa Fleming, Awake at Night podcast, series 13, United Nations, 2026 source ↗

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Zuzana Čaputová Slovak environmental lawyer and later President of Slovakia; 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize winner
The power of this victory rests on the fact that it’s about public participation; a critical step in getting the landfills shut down. It was a personal mission as both landfills are very close to houses, and the area has high cancer rates – this is what motivated us to start the campaign.
Recorded Published Q&A on the Goldman Prize blog, Goldman Environmental Prize, 9 November 2016 source ↗
Ron Dennis Motor racing team principal; head of McLaren from 1981 to 2016
Keeping my children’s feet on the ground. It’s challenging as you become wealthier and wealthier in life, and you see how money very often — third or fourth generation — destroys people. Their inability to appreciate it, understand it, not abuse it. I think I’ve equipped my children well.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, London, England, 19 October 2017 source ↗
Dereck Joubert Wildlife film-maker and conservationist; National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence
There are a lot of images to be proud of. There are a lot of images that I’m very happy with, in the film context, that were very hard to do or that happened in the right moment, and that were the embodiment of the fact that I engulf myself in the spirit of an understanding of those animals at that time.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 18 June 2018 source ↗
Alessia Cara Canadian singer-songwriter
I'm most proud of maintaining my sense of identity, you know, because I had a lot of success, and the whole whirlwind sort of happened during very formative years for me,
Recorded Makda Ghebreslassie, CBC interview on the release of Love & Hyperbole, CBC News, 14 May 2025 source ↗

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