Shane Smith quotes

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)
I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical. (Shane Smith)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind. View quote
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Shane Smith

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Photo: Photos by Max Morse TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Canadian Journalist
Born: September 28, 1969
Quotes count: 16