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Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.
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