What are you most proud of?

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Recorded László Krasznahorkai said elsewhere, not written here
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.

Jenny Rydén, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Nobel Prize, October 2025 source ↗

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Hiroshi Mikitani Founder, chairman and chief executive of Rakuten
Well, unlike our competitors, Google, EBay, Amazon, and most of the Chinese internet startups, we never got any fun or money from any VC (ph). We started with our own capital, by our self, with our own business model.
Recorded Zain Verjee, Talk Asia, CNN, 2 February 2011 source ↗
Yury Gogotsi Materials scientist at Drexel University; co-discoverer of MXenes
Yes, I am proud of them all. Our main product at DNI is people who we teach and train to do research.
Recorded John Plummer, Written Q&A published in the journal, Communications Materials, 9 October 2024 source ↗
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.
Recorded Robin Denselow, Guardian interview on Three Letters from Sarajevo, The Guardian, 27 February 2019 source ↗
Shimon Peres Prime Minister and later President of Israel; Nobel Peace laureate
I don’t know if I’m proud really, but if I have to compliment myself, I would just do it on those occasions where I have had a chance to save a life of a person or a child. This is in my eyes a real achievement. The rest? You try, but the ultimate test is saving life.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 2 May 2003 source ↗

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The bitterness. I am very sad if I think of the status of the world now. This is my deepest inspiration. This could be also an inspiration for the next generation or generations in literature. Inspiration to give something for the next generation, somehow to survive this time because these are very, very dark times and we need much more power in us to survive this time than before.
Recorded Nobel Prize telephone interview with Jenny Rydén, published by Nobel Prize Outreach, The Nobel Prize, 9 October 2025 source ↗

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