Shane Smith Quotes

• My life, like most people's, has been negatively affected by cancer, and the thought of my young children living in an age where this is no longer humanity's No. 1 health fear was simply overpowering.

  Shane Smith

  Children, Cancer, People

  "'Vice Special Report: Killing Cancer' to Debut on HBO" by Bryn Elise Sandberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2015.

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• Everyone told me, "Don't ever talk about international stuff," and "Don't do long-form content online," and "Don't get too serious in news," and "Don't be too heavy" - all this stuff, all the rules. But we broke the rules, and that, ironically, has led to some of our most successful stuff.

  Shane Smith

  Successful, Serious, Broke

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Success. Money. Fame. Whatever you're going after. You have one kick at the can, I always say. It's very rare that you have many kicks at the can. You're there at the right place at the right time, you have your shot, and it either works or it doesn't. And I've had many shots.

  Shane Smith

  Fame, Right Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

  Shane Smith

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always used to say that I wanted to be the next MTV, the next ESPN, the next CNN rolled up into one, and everyone would laugh at me. But now I think that people are finally wising up because, digitally, you can do that.

  Shane Smith

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every generation has a changing of the guard in media. We do the same stuff that everybody else does, but we just do it differently. We do our content online differently. We do our magazines differently. We do our TV differently. We never had anyone tell us how to do magazines, so we just developed it in a different way.

  Shane Smith

  Different, Online, Just Do It

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Shane Smith

  Adventure, Writing, World

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• I was getting mad at the system or the politicians or the government, and then I realized someone should talk about this stuff, and I have a big, multinational global-youth platform of kids who are going to change the world. So I was like, "I should be doing that. I should be showing this to people. That's my job." And since that time, I've been very happy.

  Shane Smith

  Kids, People, Mad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Shane Smith

  Spring, Media, Europe

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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

  Shane Smith

  America, Canada, Boring

  "Vice's Shane Smith on What's Wrong With Canada, Facebook and Occupy Wall Street" by Jeff Bercovici, www.forbes.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

  Shane Smith

  Thinking, Age, Looks

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• You have to be dynamic. You have to be able to change. So a lot of times we'll go to a country or go meet people, and then while we're there, the story changes and you have to be able to go with that. And then the story comes out in the editing room, which is a very documentary sort of process - not how news works. So that's different.

  Shane Smith

  Country, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Shane Smith

  Jobs, Korea, Shots

  "Vice's New Envelope-Pushing Docu-Series Premieres on HBO Tonight" by Allison P.Davis, www.elle.com. April 5, 2013.

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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.

  Shane Smith

  Citizens, Conspiracy, Propaganda

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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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.

  Shane Smith

  Race, Different, Kind

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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. But when you're sort of living with people who are there, we just press record and let them tell the story.

  Shane Smith

  Mean, Marine, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Shane Smith

  Media, Names, Radio

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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• I am a human being. I am not an actor.

  Shane Smith

  Actors, Humans, Human Beings

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

  Shane Smith

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Vice's New Envelope-Pushing Docu-Series Premieres on HBO Tonight" by Allison P.Davis, www.elle.com. April 5, 2013.

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• When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

  Shane Smith

  Children, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Shane Smith

  Two, Goal, Google

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

  Shane Smith

  Beautiful, Want, Live Fast

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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.

  Shane Smith

  Fabric Of Life, Issues, Want

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

  Shane Smith

  Actors, Humans, Knows

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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.

  Shane Smith

  Mean, Marine, Iraq

  Interview with Spike Jonze, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

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