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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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Martinus Veltman

Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the quantum structure of electroweak interactions

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It will continue and it is due to something which I am very proud to say I invented. ... In 1975 I was asked to become a member of CERN’s scientific policy committee, that committee advises the council of CERN as to what they should do in the future concerning physics. ... we cannot go all the times through the traumatising experience of fighting for a new accelerator, making it and then fall back and so on, so I came to the concept of a constant budget.

Per Carlson and Jasmina Cirgic, Nobelprize.org interview, The Nobel Prize, December 1999 source ↗

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Hanna Tetteh UN Special Representative for Libya; former Foreign Minister of Ghana
But since then, I'm happy to report they've been gliding. They've been chairing the sessions. They've being rapporteurs. They've been actively debating on the issues, and I'm very proud of them.
Recorded Melissa Fleming, Awake at Night podcast, series 13, United Nations, 2026 source ↗
Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Microsoft was at the center of the personal computer revolution, and particularly the creation of a software market where you went out to lots of companies, and encouraged them to write software for different applications, mundane applications, wild applications. That idea that you would encourage people to be creative, and build software, and there would be a whole industry around that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Seattle, Washington, 17 March 2010 source ↗
Arthur Ashkin Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of optical tweezers
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 ↗
Andre Russell Jamaican cricketer; West Indies all-rounder and twice a T20 World Cup winner
Definitely [my best moment was] the 2016 World Cup, that semi-final game against India where I brought the team home, me and Lendl Simmons, and obviously the start that we got from the other batters,
Recorded Cricket West Indies interview before his farewell T20Is at Sabina Park, ESPNcricinfo, 19 July 2025 source ↗

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