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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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" I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other. "

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

" 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.' "

" I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp. "

" The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do. "

" If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea. "

" 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. "

" If you look at film, distribution is pre-bought. If you've paid for the distribution, you say, 'I have to make sure it's a film that gets enough butts in the seats.' I think that's the problem: It becomes prohibitively expensive, and you can't develop films for a smaller amount of money. "

" I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to. "

" Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island. "

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

" Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.' "

" One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on. "

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

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

" If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world. "

" Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success. "

" When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard. "

" My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. "

" I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth. "

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" The problem that we've had is four media companies run media, globally. And some say they're on the Right and some say they're on the Left; look, they're all afraid of losing Ford as a client. So they're all, by definition, huge companies that are going to be inherently conservative. "

" 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. "

" I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker. "

" Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere. "

" 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. "