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.
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Tara VanDerveer
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I’m probably—I’m probably most proud of, you know, just the relationships that I have with the players I’ve coached. When, you know, one of—you know, different player will, like, text me, like, you know, “I just had, you know, just had our daughter.” And I’m like, after an hour, I’m like, you know, that like, “Don’t you have something better to do?” You know, you’re an hour into having a newborn. But it’s great, you know. Or being invited to a wedding. You know, just being part of people’s lives
Academy of Achievement interview, New York City, 22 September 2024
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I’m very happy and I’m very proud, because to be in the line which contains so many really great writers and poets gives me power to use my original language, the Hungarian language. I am really very proud and very happy to use this little language.
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Jenny Rydén, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Nobel Prize, October 2025
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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.
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Melissa Fleming, Awake at Night podcast, series 13, United Nations, 2026
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Goran Bregović
Bosnian composer and musician; former Bijelo Dugme leader and film composer
One of the things I’m proudest of is that today is a Friday, and hundreds of Gypsy bands will be playing for tips, and they will play a lot of my songs. I like the idea that because of that, some kid will have marmalade on his bread.
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Robin Denselow, Guardian interview on Three Letters from Sarajevo, The Guardian, 27 February 2019
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Norman Schwarzkopf
United States Army general; commander of coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War
A man does not get to write his own epitaph. But if I were to write mine it would say the following: He loved his family, and he loved his troops, and they loved him — period.
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Academy of Achievement interview, Las Vegas, Nevada, 26 June 1992
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