David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.
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I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.
