Aaron Huey Quotes

#1. More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

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#2. [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

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#3. Your belief system saturates the space around you.

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#4. War is the greatest failure of mankind.

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#5. I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

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#6. War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

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#7. My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I'm telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.

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#8. I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

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#9. Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

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#10. I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

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#11. A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories ... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

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#12. Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

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#13. I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

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#14. Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

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#15. Men are separated by so many petty things.

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