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Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.

From Chris Hayes

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

From Chris Hayes

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

From Chris Hayes

I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.

From Chris Hayes

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

From Chris Hayes

You start noticing that people are noticing how you look, and it is a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.'

From Chris Hayes

I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.

From Chris Hayes

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

From Chris Hayes

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

From Chris Hayes

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

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