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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Recorded Robert B. Wilson said elsewhere, not written here
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.

Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, The Nobel Prize, 12 October 2020 source ↗

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Cris Cyborg Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer; world champion across four major promotions
We were training hard saying one day the opportunity is going to come and we're going to be ready to show that girls can fight. And I had the opportunity to show this - not just for me, but to give the opportunity to other women.
Recorded Paul Battison, BBC Sport interview before PFL Tampa, 21 August 2026 source ↗
Kei May Lau Chair Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering at HKUST; semiconductor and photonics researcher
I am most proud of the legacy of my students and postdocs. The real triumph, for me, is witnessing the transformation of the individuals who have passed through my lab. They arrive with potential and leave making substantial impacts. Seeing them flourish professionally and contribute meaningfully to our field is, without a doubt, my greatest accomplishment.
Recorded Written Q&A in the journal's Light People series, Light: Science & Applications, 11 March 2024 source ↗
Werner Arber Microbiologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes
If you go into the field of medicine, I think any, very active protein like, let’s say interferons have been isolated, thanks to these techniques and then the question was, how should one apply them? In which kind of medical problems? Some, there were some deceptions but there were also discoveries that in certain other fields these products were very useful. Another example which has been widely successful is the product of human insulin which made medicine largely independent of insulins harvested from living animals and I think if one looks at these things these are really very good examples.
Recorded Marika Griehsel, 53rd meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany, The Nobel Prize, July 2003 source ↗
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.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Rancho Santa Fe, California, 15 May 1991 source ↗

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