Quotes by Shane Smith

Shane Smith

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I’m not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

Actors

Humans

Knows

Andrew Creighton, who ran Europe for us and who now runs the company day-to-day, would always go to the people he would hire and say, “Look, I don’t know what it is, but whatever this guy says comes true because he’s got some sort of weird self-fulfilling-prophecy thing.” And that’s exactly right. The reason I was so bombastic or whatever was because you have to believe it.

Believe

People

Running

Every generation has a changing of the guard in media. We do the same stuff that everybody else does, but we just do it differently. We do our content online differently. We do our magazines differently. We do our TV differently. We never had anyone tell us how to do magazines, so we just developed it in a different way.

Different

Just Do It

Online

Everyone told me, “Don’t ever talk about international stuff,” and “Don’t do long-form content online,” and “Don’t get too serious in news,” and “Don’t be too heavy” – all this stuff, all the rules. But we broke the rules, and that, ironically, has led to some of our most successful stuff.

Broke

Serious

Successful

I always used to say that I wanted to be the next MTV, the next ESPN, the next CNN rolled up into one, and everyone would laugh at me. But now I think that people are finally wising up because, digitally, you can do that.

Laughing

People

Thinking

I am a human being. I am not an actor.

Actors

Human Beings

Humans

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

America

Boring

Canada

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.

Adventure

World

Writing

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.

People

Tv Shows

Want

I was getting mad at the system or the politicians or the government, and then I realized someone should talk about this stuff, and I have a big, multinational global-youth platform of kids who are going to change the world. So I was like, “I should be doing that. I should be showing this to people. That’s my job.” And since that time, I’ve been very happy.

Kids

Mad

People

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Quotes by Shane Smith

Shane Smith

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I’m not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

I always used to say that I wanted to be the next MTV, the next ESPN, the next CNN rolled up into one, and everyone would laugh at me. But now I think that people are finally wising up because, digitally, you can do that.

I am a human being. I am not an actor.

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

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.

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.

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