Shane Smith Quotes - Page 2

• I stand here empty, waiting to b filled. I stand here weary of days bombarded with sorrows & ill. Yet, I STAND. For I know it is not of my strength; I know it is not my will. So with my eyes fixed on the prize and a rejoicing soul, I stand with a prayerful heart, waiting for my blessing. I stand, knowing my blessing will com.

  Shane Smith

  Motivational, Heart, Eye

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• Sometimes we ask ourselves 'Why?' Why do I continue to smile, to give, to live? Why do I continue to stand, despite the ferocity of the wind that keeps blowing, that keeps slapping against my face, creating a pressure that says 'fall'? Why I don't I listen to those who call me a fool because I continue to love despite my hurt? I don't know what tomorrow brings; I don't know if my troubles will seize or if my sorrows will continue. But this much I do know - I will continue to hold out, I will continue to press on, until my blessing comes.

  Shane Smith

  Motivational, Hurt, Fall

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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.

  Shane Smith

  Tv Shows, People, Want

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• When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

  Shane Smith

  Children, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.

  Shane Smith

  Mean, Marine, Iraq

  Interview with Spike Jonze, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.

  Shane Smith

  Good Life, Kids, Care

  Interview with Spike Jonze, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists.

  Shane Smith

  Games, Omaha

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• If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you. But when you're sort of living with people who are there, we just press record and let them tell the story.

  Shane Smith

  Mean, Marine, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to be dynamic. You have to be able to change. So a lot of times we'll go to a country or go meet people, and then while we're there, the story changes and you have to be able to go with that. And then the story comes out in the editing room, which is a very documentary sort of process - not how news works. So that's different.

  Shane Smith

  Country, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Shane Smith

  Running, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't go to bars and stuff like I used to, but I live each day to make something.

  Shane Smith

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Look, I've had four kicks at the can. You've had a tremendous career. We're also happy. We've loved. We've lived. We don't starve. We haven't been shot in the gut. So at that point, I started getting a little more serious about the content we were making and the business and building the business. I also became more serious about life and being happy. I got married, I have kids - I'm happy at a cellular level now.

  Shane Smith

  Kids, Serious, Married

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to make those mistakes. You have to do the work. You have to fail. I also realized that I should practice what I preach, which is that if you only do get one kick at the can . . . When you go to places like Africa or Asia or the Indian sub-continent, you realize that a lot of the people there don't ever get a kick at the can. There are no "kicks" at the can - you just don't have that shot.

  Shane Smith

  Mistake, People, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I mean, we shoot differently, we cut differently, our stories are different . . . I'd say that every single thing is different except for the fact that you watch it on a TV or a computer or a phone, just like you do with everybody else's content.

  Shane Smith

  Mean, Cutting, Different

  Interview with Spike Jonze, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I'm sure everybody looked at me cockeyed. But if you don't believe it, then it's not going to happen. If you don't believe it, no one else is going to believe it. But if you believe it and keep saying it, then slowly one person will believe you, then two, then three, then four . . .

  Shane Smith

  Believe, If You Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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