What are you most proud of?

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I’m proud of all my heritages, and I’m delighted that I have been able to learn from many different experiences.

Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, The Nobel Prize, October 2024 source ↗

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Philip Johnson Architect; first winner of the Pritzker Prize
I don’t know. I know the ones that are the greatest triumphs, like the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington D.C. that I worked on with the owners. It was a real collaboration and there was no budget, no money involved. It was just, “If we like that better, we’ll do it that way.” So I had total freedom and it was a simple project to build a little museum, and the owner and I worked together and it was pure delight from beginning to end and it came out very well.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, New York, New York, 28 February 1992 source ↗
Johnny Cash Singer and songwriter
I’m most proud that, after all I’ve been through, God has let me be alive and well today, and still with June Carter.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Glacier Park, Montana, 25 June 1993 source ↗
Cathy Freeman Australian sprinter, 1990–2003
But I was not really planning to create what seems to be a lasting impact. I was just always about personal expression and pride in who I was as an Australian Indigenous girl. It was more about me sharing all of me with the world. But, certainly after all these years, it makes me really proud.
Recorded Euan Crumley, Interview marking 25 years since the Sydney 2000 400m final, Athletics Weekly, 22 September 2025 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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It is simplistic in the following sense that you cannot institute democracy from above. It’s a very difficult process. And democracy is not the only dimension of institutions that matters. Although my work does emphasise that democracy by itself matters as well. But the problem is really alive today in the industrialised world, where you would think, and many political scientists have claimed that democracy is safe and secure and would never be under threat. It is under threat. Support for democracy is at an all time low, not just in the US, although really jarringly in the US but not just in the US, throughout the western world. So democracy is not easy to make work because democracy is about democratic citizenship. It’s about consensus, it’s about communication. It’s about accepting defeat, making compromises, talking and understanding the other side. All of those things are always difficult. They become more difficult during times of turbulence, which, you know, we are living through and they become harder when the infrastructure, for example, the communication infrastructure, makes this sort of democratic citizenship harder, which I think is not the only factor. But social media has certainly played that role.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview recorded shortly after the prize announcement, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 October 2026 source ↗

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