Shane Smith
Shane Smith
Shane Smith may refer to:...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionJournalist
CountryCanada
cells disease embryonic human produce stem team
To my knowledge, the only team that can reliably produce disease-specific and patient-specific human embryonic stem cells is the team in Korea.
basketball exists heads junior team turned
What Junior has done, and the team as a whole, has really turned a lot of heads in this part of the state. They know basketball exists over here.
country north
My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.
breeds interests success
Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.
next
I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp.
anyone best lots money piece spike stopped worrying
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.
companies developing everybody hates stuff time versions
You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, 'Let's do 100 different versions of 'The Voice.' The problem is, by the time you get to market, it's already saturated, and everybody hates the format.
middle work
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.
content online
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.
bones classic objective sort versus
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.
chance change realize starting
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.
dressed mozart success whenever
Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.
change kids saw wednesday
Wednesday we saw a real change in our team. I'm excited, the kids are excited, we're all excited.
good great love people special
What makes him so special is that he's such a good person. He's just a great kid, and the people in Tallassee love him.