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My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

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Chris Hayes
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 28
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My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
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The person that always wins, that`s the other thing. The monkey picking stocks always wins.
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I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.
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One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.
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It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.
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Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those people had cancer, died of it, and sold cigarettes their whole career.
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