What are you most proud of?
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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Aaron Ciechanover
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said elsewhere, not written here
I cannot tell you even. I have to ask my son and my wife that were with me in the room because I came to say ”hello,” that I’m leaving. And, I was caught in total surprise. It’s wonderful. What can I tell you? Obviously, it’s wonderful. That’s the climax that every scientist can ever dream of. I will not deny that I am proud for me, for this science, for the state of Israel, for my family, for everybody.
Joanna Rose, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Nobel Prize, 6 October 2004
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Robert B. Wilson
Economist; Nobel laureate in economic sciences for improvements to auction theory
I have always thought of him as the leader in all of this so … but I take great pride in him because he was my PhD student so I take a lot of pride in having sort of at an early stage influenced him, and in this whole field of market design and auction design. This of course, by the way, is the third of my students who’ve won Nobel Prizes.
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Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, The Nobel Prize, 12 October 2020
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John Hume
Northern Irish politician; founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and joint winner of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize
I wasn’t interested in politics in those days, but I was interested in helping people, and I got involved in the Foundation of the Credit Union movement. And, of all the things I’ve been doing, it’s the thing I’m proudest of because no movement has done more good for the people of Ireland, north and south, than the credit union movement.
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Academy of Achievement interview, Dublin, Ireland, 11 October 2002
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Cristina Duarte
UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa; former Finance Minister of Cabo Verde
Melissa, to have the opportunity in my life to serve my country for 10 years as Minister of Finance and Planning was the best gift that my life gave to me. I was born under the colonial period. I experienced the independence of my country.
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Melissa Fleming, Awake at Night podcast, series 7, United Nations, 2023
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Pete Rozelle
Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
I have never really studied them very much. I think that I was proud of — not just what I did — but my staff played obviously a major part, did in popularizing the sport, with the early promotional activities of NFL Properties, merchandising, NFL Films, all the work that we put on the Super Bowl to make that a top attraction. All those things, I feel very good about, but I think they played a big part in popularizing the league.
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Academy of Achievement interview, Rancho Santa Fe, California, 15 May 1991
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