“You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for… unless it's contagious!”

Franklyn Broude, as quoted in Sitting on a File Cabinet, Naked, with a Gun: True Stories of Silicon Valley (2009) by Linda McFarland, Joanne Linden and Sharon Turnoy
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opera soprano 1929–2007

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