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St. Vincent Musician
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"All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way."

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Omar Sy Actor
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"Actors are always looking for new territory, and playing an African figure would be really a great symbol for me because of my Senegalese roots. It would make my parents proud, so of course I'd do it."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence."

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Grant Hill Basketball Player
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"I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out"

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John Keats Poet
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"If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."

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Murray Gell-Mann Physicist
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"As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize."

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Ali Lohan Model, Actress, Singer
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"I'm proud to be a Lohan and I will always will be."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time."

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
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"Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts."

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