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  • Growing up, my favorite group was New Edition. I loved the opportunity to do the remix to Bobby Brown's song 'Get Away'. I told myself that I would have my own group like New Edition one day. -- Chris Stokes
  • Being called weird is like being called Limited Edition. Meaning youre something people dont see that often. -- Ashley Purdy
  • I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67). . Kindle Edition. -- R.K. Ryals
  • I used to want to be the black dude in The Last Dragon. I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool. -- Deon Cole
  • I don't watch a lot of TV. I am madly in love, I'm a big sap, I'm madly in love with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I cry every week. -- Eva LaRue
  • In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy. -- Thomas Szasz
  • I grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together. -- Ruben Studdard
  • Perm in your hair or even a curly weave, Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve. I tell you come here, you say, 'Meet me half way,' Cause brothers been popping that game all day. -- LL Cool J
  • The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. -- Fisher Stevens
  • Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all? -- Arianna Huffington
  • Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that's not the case with photography. To me, it's a false way of creating value. -- Jerry Uelsmann
  • I am pretty proud to be the Super Bowl correspondent for Inside Edition. It is the most coveted assignment, and the most watched event in our country - every year. The pomp and circumstance during Super Bowl week leading up to the game is just incredible. -- Megan Alexander
  • We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's Weekend Edition every week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud. -- Rachel Martin
  • I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition. -- Jourdan Dunn
  • Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. -- Ashley Montagu
  • If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. -- John Clare
  • My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500. -- Lapo Elkann
  • After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year. -- Miguel de Icaza
  • Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me. -- Geoffrey Rush
  • I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. -- Maya Angelou
  • I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback. -- Blake Bailey
  • Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again. -- Hansie Cronje
  • When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.' -- Joel A. Barker
  • I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. -- Tom Glazer
  • This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew. -- Wilbur Smith
  • I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page. -- Jack Reynor
  • The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. -- Gary Larson
  • I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth. -- Peter Abrahams
  • When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it. -- Dallas Willard
  • The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. -- Maya Angelou
  • People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.' -- Colin Hay
  • I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do. -- Henry Rollins
  • My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure. -- Rick Yancey
  • STREET by 50 is all about giving our fans the finest music experience we possibly can. The response to the limited edition colors so far speaks for itself - the fans want the opportunity to match their headphones to their personal style, and we definitely want to make sure to give them what they want. -- Curtis Jackson
  • I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it. -- Suresh Raina
  • I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly. -- Sonam Kapoor
  • I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction. -- John Larroquette
  • I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD. -- Eli Roth
  • It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition. -- Haruki Murakami
  • I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951. -- Walter Schloss
  • No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. -- Graham Joyce
  • A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. -- Walter Bagehot
  • Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. -- Bill Moyers
  • Dreams as soul messages...each nightly communication brings the latest-breaking news available in special edition just for you! -- Gary Zukav
  • I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time. -- Steven Hall
  • Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era. -- Brian K. Vaughan
  • Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano. -- Bill Bruford
  • Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition... -- Alan Moore
  • I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense. -- Norman MacCaig
  • I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk. -- Jen Lancaster
  • The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist. -- John Ankerberg
  • Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird -- Jerzy Kosinski
  • I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs. -- Wislawa Szymborska
  • I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us. -- Bill Kurtis
  • When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date. -- Isaac Newton
  • The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer. -- Robert Fitzgerald
  • In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature. -- D.E. Stevenson
  • [Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. -- Anne Bronte
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  • A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England -- Richard Saul Wurman
  • The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.' -- Sam Trammell
  • All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose. -- James Agate
  • He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section. -- Elizabeth Kostova
  • In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition. -- Peter Jackson
  • It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end. -- Leslie Fiedler
  • MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE. -- Shepard Fairey
  • As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. -- Brian Kernighan
  • There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first. -- Benjamin Wiker
  • One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession. -- Stephen Greenblatt
  • I read a lot of The Canterbury Tales on my phone, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading. -- Rick Moody
  • In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees. -- Thom Yorke
  • Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back. -- Mark Hoppus
  • Obviously, I don't make an entire edition all at once, so the studio often goes back to produce editions, but that's a bit different. I guess I'm always thinking about the next work. -- Patricia Piccinini
  • The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward. -- Adam Mansbach
  • Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. -- Greg Egan
  • Forgiveness is capital 'L' Love in action. Until you have to forgive someone, you haven't loved. You just think you have. Until somebody forgives you, you don't know humility. [p342, 1st paperback edition] -- Rea Nolan Martin
  • Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon. -- Siri Hustvedt
  • There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition). -- Karl Marx
  • Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I look forward to the new edition. New information and knowledge are always welcome. -- Thomas Keller
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