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I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
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On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
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I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
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I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.
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