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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

America

Day

Life

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" TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different. "

Shane Smith

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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. "

" I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I have the greatest life in the world because I created it. "

" I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. "

" 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. "

" 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 have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no. "

Shane Smith

Place

Internet

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Pretty

World

" 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.' "

Shane Smith

Canada

Back

" Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative. "

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

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

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

Shane Smith

Iran

Country

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

" You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, 'Let's do 100 different versions of 'The Voice.' The problem is, by the time you get to market, it's already saturated, and everybody hates the format. "

" 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.' "

" Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story. "