Quotes About History

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

It makes me cross when I hear people say, 'It's so last season.' I always say, 'It's vintage.'

What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore it before you live on in some way.

I just want to clear something up... vintage doesn't mean cheap.

I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.

I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?

I've always collected vintage kitchenalia because it's beautifully made, and I love to see things that have been used down the ages.

All of the vintage photos of Ballets Russes are so inspiring.

When buying vintage, it's important to choose pieces that you feel like you've already owned for years.

It's hard to find genuine 20s vintage in good condition, but it is out there. One tip would be to look in the 70s rails. When the first Gatsby film came out in 1974, it promoted a 20s trend, so you often find 20s style pieces, that were actually from the 70s.

I don't know where streaming will go in the future. The analytics that we're seeing tell us that streaming is the next thing, and downloads are going down. I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.

Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of them are 40 years old, 50 years old, and are still under thick, thick secrecy, and anyone violating this secrecy would be thrown into jail himself.

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.