Quotes tagged ‘Vice’

“Vice’s position – private or public – in the evolving landscape has yet to be officially defined.”

— Ted Johnson, Jill Goldsmith, deadline.com

“In an internal email to staff obtained by Variety, CEO Nancy Dubuc stated that although the digital side of VICE accounts for 50% of headcount costs, it only brings in 21% of their revenue. As a result, the layoffs primarily affect the digital teams, and account for more than 5% of their total staff…”

— Dan Gentile, sfgate.com

“Bowling Priest: You see, bowling for money...that’s my only vice. Cocktail Waitress: Here’s your drink. Bowling Priest: Thanks, sugar. [takes drink from a double bourbon on the rocks and pats waitress’ behind] Okay, two vices. Ernie McCracken: That’s still very good.”

— Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan, Ernie McCracken, Bill Murray, imdb.com

“HBO’s cancellation hadn’t come as a shock, especially after AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner, the network’s parent company, and the subsequent departure of CEO Richard Plepler.”

— Reeves Wiedeman, nymag.com

“The Scam is a scam, and its winking self-referentiality serves in the end to do nothing much more than to gloss over that it is, in fact, a scam, perpetuated by someone who, probably like a lot of the people who attended the event, has a hard time meeting their rent.”

— Anna Iovine, vice.com

“I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.”

— Al Capone, en.wikiquote.org

“I make money by supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers…of the best people in Chicago are as guilty as me.”

— Al Capone, smithsonianmag.com

“I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.”

— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org

“Shun all vice, especially card playing.”

— Nathan Hale, amazon.com

“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”

— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com

“Please mock this fat feminist.”

— Mitch Sunderland, buzzfeed.com

“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

— Salvador Dalí, romanticbohemian.net

“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”

— Frank Sinatra, play.spotify.com

“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”

— Frank Sinatra, amazon.com

“I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“Another call, another bed I shouldn't crawl out of At 7AM with shoes in my hand Said I wouldn't do it, but I did it again And I know I'll be back tomorrow night, oh”

— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com

“Nothing about Vice's journey makes sense. Nothing about it is a 'playbook' that any other media company could actually follow. It's completely fucking weird and not algorithmic and shouldn't have worked. And that's why, whether it always follows the rules of journalism or not, Vice is a real media c…”

— Sarah Lacy, pando.com