Archives – Page 3

Everyone keeps asking you

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives. Annie Leibovitz

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping … Read more

What’s an archive, son?

What’s an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet? Redd Foxx

Language is the archives

Language is the archives of history. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I took the

When I took the job as Estée Lauder’s creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern. Aerin Lauder

The university is the

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, … the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, … the dwelling place of the free mind. Adlai E. Stevenson

A sociologist without an

A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory. Raisa Gorbacheva

We need to take

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks… With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge – we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?
Aaron Swartz