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

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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

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.

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith