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How would you want people to remember you?

213 answers answered between 1995 and 2026 one of 5 in 73 Questions

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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.

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 2 Arts and letters 176 Politics and public life 17 Business and finance 2 Technology 4 Sport 12
Read by age Any age Before thirty 7 In their thirties 39 In their forties 36 In their fifties 46 In their sixties 51 Seventy and beyond 26
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Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
When I am on my deathbed, and I am thinking back on my life, I am absolutely certain that the thing I will be thinking about is holding my daughters' hands and taking them to the park. It will not be some speech I gave or some legislation that I passed. I am positive about that. And so if you keep that in mind, then you have to invest accordingly.
Recorded Ben Tiggelaar, Forward Thinking Leadership, Amsterdam, Ben Tiggelaar, 28 September 2018 source ↗
Malcolm Gladwell Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
As a writer who took cheering up his listeners seriously.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 April 2021 source ↗

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