Ronan Farrow Quotes

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.
Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.
Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.
For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.
Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.
He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.
Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, 'We hear you're working on a big story,' sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.
Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
I can say whatever I want. I will be nothing but unfiltered with my audience.
I don't think most people are aware of the exotic and extreme tools at the disposal of the most powerful and wealthy men of America when they are bent at silencing accusations against them.
I don't think that anyone in the pages of 'War on Peace' is arguing that diplomacy is the replacement for military power. But, correctly, the job of the military is to think tactically.
I grew up in a family that had young people adopted from all over the world.
I grew up in a family where you could never be the center of attention.
I had aquariums of bullfrogs and mudpuppies. My poor mom had to deal with me incubating chicken eggs in my bedroom.
I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.
I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a brother who's a carpenter.
I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.
I spent a long time reporting on trans issues, and I know in the course of that reporting I saw how deeply adversity runs.
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.
I've got to say, I'm a Rand Paul fan.
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