What are you most proud of?

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Vogue's 73 Questions repeatedly asks respondents to select the work, relationship, or achievement that makes them proudest.

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Recorded Aziz Sancar said elsewhere, not written here
I am of course honoured to get this recognition for all the work I’ve done over the years, but I’m also proud for my family and for my native country and my adopted country, and especially for Turkey it’s quite important.

Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Nobel Prize, 7 October 2015 source ↗

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Olga Tokarczuk Novelist and essayist; Nobel laureate in literature
Yeah, I’m very happy. Of course I’m very happy, and I am proud that I am with Peter Handke , and that we, both of us, we are from central Europe. It’s really very meaningful for me, this Nobel Prize is going to central Europe. I’m really, really very proud.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Nobel Prize, 10 October 2019 source ↗
Ron Dennis Motor racing team principal; head of McLaren from 1981 to 2016
Keeping my children’s feet on the ground. It’s challenging as you become wealthier and wealthier in life, and you see how money very often — third or fourth generation — destroys people. Their inability to appreciate it, understand it, not abuse it. I think I’ve equipped my children well.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, London, England, 19 October 2017 source ↗
Yaya Touré Ivorian former footballer; Barcelona, Manchester City and Ivory Coast midfielder, now a coach
What I'm the most proud of is the opportunity to help City to start the journey to be one of the elite clubs in England now.
Recorded BBC Sport interview, published as a Q&A transcript, 20 December 2025 source ↗
David Hare Playwright and screenwriter
The lecture that I’m proudest of [reprinted in the book as “In the Oxford Madrasa”] is the one that I gave in 2016 about conservatism being in a hopeless philosophical mess.
Recorded Matthew Reisz, Books interview, The Guardian, 7 August 2022 source ↗

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