Sounds trivial and even silly, but it helped me and gave me confidence.

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Asked when he would finally be deported, she said she "couldn't put a date on it and it would be silly for me to put a date on it" but insisted it remained her aim to see it happen as soon as possible.

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It seems a bit silly and mean-minded to me.

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And he asked me why I did it, and I was just being a silly kid.

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The striker, who apologised for his actions after the match, said emotions "took over me" and that it was "silly" to run up to the fans, but claimed he had been insulted for the whole game.

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But with the one-size-bigger Countryman hitting dealerships now, and a Mini coupe and roadster coming soon, plus the likely Paceman crossover coupe, Mini to me is looking more and more like a wad of Silly Putty being stretched and deformed into too many shapes.

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And I would be silly if I was to post people who are not loyal to me or who are not in line with my thinking.

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I'm all for a dress code, but it has always struck me that golf's way of doing things was antiquated, punitive and not a little silly.

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With his band Red House Painters, he took things like "Long Distance Runaround" by Yes and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs, " slowed them way down and gave them entirely new emotional meaning, which to me is the mark of a truly great cover version.

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Silly games, a bare-boned word processor that helped me become a fledgling writer, and a machine to play around on and tinker with that helped shape a part of who I was as a person by shaping what I enjoyed to spend my time doing.

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