Ronan Farrow Quotes

#1. Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

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#2. Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

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#3. Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

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#4. Not to psychologize, but it's hard growing up in a family of 14 to ever feel like you're the center of the universe, or that you're that special or different. Because when it comes down to it, you're still fighting for food at the dinner table.

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#5. My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.

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#6. You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.

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#7. Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing ... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration ... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.

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#8. Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were pretty entertaining. And he's translating all of that into a policy agenda.

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#9. It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

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#10. A simple leather jacket ... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

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#11. I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

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#12. Happy Father's Day
or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

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#13. I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

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#14. For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

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