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 Anette Sagen said elsewhere, not written here
What I’m most proud of in my ski jumping career is that I helped the sport to get where it is today, with the World Cup, World Championship and the Olympics.

Written Q&A in the IOC's Athlete Role Model series before Lillehammer 2016, Olympics.com (International Olympic Committee), 2016 source ↗

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László Krasznahorkai Novelist; Nobel laureate in literature
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.
Recorded Jenny Rydén, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Nobel Prize, October 2025 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 ↗
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 ↗
Bob Woodward Investigative reporter and author; associate editor of The Washington Post
I don’t know whether I feel pride. I think pride is hubris. I think it is an emotion that if you bask in it, it’s like hate; it will destroy you. So I don’t make those kinds of assessments. I like what I do. I am repeatedly struck by how I have missed part of the story, always.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington D.C., 1 May 2003 source ↗

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