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Tom Freston, born on November 22, 1945, is a prominent figure in the entertainment industry, known for his role as a seasoned media and entertainment industry executive. His career has spanned multiple sectors, including television, film, and digital media.

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“When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess its like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.”

Long Feelings Moving Term Loss Serious Balance Passionate Long Term Girlfriend Long Term Relationship Jilted

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“I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.”

Home Kids Learning Safe Mtv

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“A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.”

Trying Happens Life Is Interesting Careers Path Balance Luck Working It Usual Vigorous Crooked Clumsy Career Path Interesting Life

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“Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.”

Way Two Together Innovation Two Things New Ways Innovation And Leadership

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“Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.”

Ifs Culture Understanding Increase Other Cultures

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“Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.”

Important Sometimes Hard Authenticity

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“People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.”

People Wells Suffering Teach Events Blessing Radical Disguise Trust Me Setback Blessings In Disguise Radical Change

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“Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.”

Hard Hard Work True Love Fuel

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“I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.”

Hard School Pay Hard Work Making Money

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“I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.”

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“If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.”

Ifs Looks Hard Company Media Internet Traditional Brands

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“Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.”

Sometimes Feelings Seeing Circumstances Extremes Minorities Push Yourself

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“Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.”

School Graduates Graduate School

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“I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.”

People Kind Art Things To Do Atoms Spinning Fitting Never Ending Places To Go Electrons

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“I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, "Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or MTV." I think 'Vice' is in that category now.”

“I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Social Can Do Tvs Online Platforms Delivery Metrics

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“Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.”

Art Culture Courses Watches Technology Cutting Edges Corners Profession These Days Toasts Popular Culture Cutting Edge

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“The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.”

Looks Moments Skills Grateful Acquire Be Grateful Setback Catalyst

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“There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.”

Problem Stuff Impression Day To Day Consumed

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“We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.”

World Littles Ideas Facts Levels Trouble Awareness Lows Disturbing Familiarity Low Level

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