76 Quotes by Shane Smith

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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