Shane Smith Quotes

• There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That’s Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

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• The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, ‘Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.’

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• Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I’d rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

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• It’s our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage – we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that’s a stunt, then I’ll keep on doing stunts until I die.

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• If you’re coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you’re embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they’re protecting you.

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• If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the ‘Youth Spring’ that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.

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• I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.

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• I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn’t have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

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  Tags in Thought, Writers

• Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money – despite the fact that half of them are unemployed.

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• When you’re 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

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• The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

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  Tags in Conspiracy, Greatest

• People think because ‘Vice’ is irreverent and because we’re crazy, we’re stunt journalists. You know what? I don’t actually care.

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• I don’t care if I die – look, I’m old – but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.

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  Tags in Good Times, Times

• I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

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  Tags in Boring, Canada

• American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

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  Tags in Incredibly, Radio

• All I know is that when I go somewhere, I’m not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

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  Tags in Human, Somewhere

Shane Smith (16)

Birth:	1970
Nationality:	American, Canadian
Profession:	Chief Executive Officer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Journalist

About

Shane Smith was born in Ottawa, Canada to Irish immigrants. He attended the Lisgar Collegiate Institute and later graduated from Carleton University with a degree in political economy.

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