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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made no bones about my position: I don't think you can be objective. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest. "

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

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

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" Advertisers realize that Gen Y is the largest purchasing cohort. Also, that you're going to have to accept some different modes of thinking if you're going to get to them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "