David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

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• We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

  

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• My main focus is to help people through music.

  

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• The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.

  

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• Even logical positivists are capable of love.

  

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• Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

  

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• Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Intellectual
  • Critics
  • Dictionary