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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
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"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."
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"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
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"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
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"I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father."
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"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down."
Work
"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."
Business
"That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal."
Home
"The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images."
Education
"I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques."
Friendship
"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
Photography
"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."
Home
"When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history."
History
"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
Photography
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