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This is just ridiculous... publicity hounds, it is just silly. – Detective Kevin Becker	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Even an inexpensive piece of athletic apparel or footwear does wonders, it’s such a silly thing, but a new tank top really can boost your confidence and excitement. – Holly Perkins	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I always love giving gifts, so yes, for family and friends, most definitely I will be sending gifts. For me, I know it sounds silly, but, I am okay. I like to live by the act of giving. In all honesty, I am good with no materialistic gifts. – Lindsay Lohan	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It does n’t seem likely that someone would want to cut it up and sell it as it would lose too much value. To steal something that John Kennedy ca n’t liquidate is silly. – John Kennedy	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I just hope girls don’t do silly things like this and [her death] raises awareness, when she was just 20 months she had a livor tumor that was six pounds and she had chemotherapy for a year and a bit and a full transplant. – Samantha James	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I always say if you can't forgive the people you love, then who can you forgive? … I'm not going to let a silly kiss ruin the rest of our lives. – De Lesseps	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We love each other, i always say if you can't forgive the people you love, then who can you forgive? … I'm not going to let a silly kiss ruin the rest of our lives. – The Countess	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What troubles me... I guess when I did that silly thing at the Republican convention, talking to the chair. – Clint Eastwood	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is a little bit of a follow-through from late on Friday, when the prices got kind of silly because of month-end. – Charles Comiskey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I often felt that I was being given unfair marks and that the judges were not being objective, as they were mixing up sport and politics, to be always first is completely normal for me, as it is for my great country, which certain silly people don’t agree with. – Svetlana Khorkina	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
With any election, for whatever silly reason, it seems to dampen consumer confidence, it's common knowledge that things just don't fly. If you look at the U.K. with (the) Brexit, certainly the corporates have come off. – Flight Centre	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The idea of not voting – you’re sacrificing your Christian worldview on the altar of political expediency, it is silly to talk about not voting for either candidate. Every single Christian should vote. – Samuel Rodriguez	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It is silly to talk about not voting for either candidate. Every single Christian should vote. samuel Rodriguez don’t just stay home and not vote – Samuel Rodriguez vote. – Billy Graham	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
These letters put to bed once and for all the silly speculation that a few birds could hamstring the greatest fighting force in the history of the world. – Raul Grijalva	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I got a call from the principal that afternoon and she said there had been a negative parent reaction and they had decided to edit out all political references, it seems so silly. – Laurie Mattaliano	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The idea that the government doesn't have some other way to do this is really a pretty silly argument. – Mark Rienzi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's just a silly symbol thought up by the elite, they are always trying to fool the people. – Cleber Goncalves	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They were predicting they were going to win like four states, they won some caucus somewhere. What was it, Minnesota or something? That's really, that's...frankly it doesn't even aggravate me because it's silly. – John Kasich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If I want to buy a new house then I can go around and I can check to see whether there is damp patches around or whether the current owners have painted over and tried to hide any issues with leaks or damp patches, so that's another great example, also silly things like I'm going into the bakers and getting the freshest bread, you can point the phone up and identify where the freshest bread is. Or I let my dog out in the evening and it's pitch black, so now I can find my dog without having to chase around and rummage in bushes. – Pete Cunningham	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don't know, this back and forth is silly, ultimately it's not about me, it's not about Ted, it's not about Donald. It's about what is this country going to look like when my 15-year-old graduates from college. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The allegations of somehow fraud -- the last I checked, passing on news stories about breaking news that is true and accurate is, and should, be part of the democratic process. And all of the rest of it is just silly noise. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I always swore I would never take an Instagram of him, and I was on my phone one day and thought what the hell is happening? i honestly saw it as sort of silly before I started doing it. I thought it was a waste of time to dress my dog up, make him look certain ways and then share it with random strangers. – Hunter Lawrence	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They can do silly things, what creates bear markets differs, but the process that investors go through is the same. You'll get denial because people think that the old paradigm holds. – Dominic Wallington	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
From Apple, I could n’t even get a silly little password, it just seems nonsense. – Donna Bush	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

This is just ridiculous... publicity hounds, it is just silly.

– Detective Kevin Becker

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Even an inexpensive piece of athletic apparel or footwear does wonders, it’s such a silly thing, but a new tank top really can boost your confidence and excitement.

– Holly Perkins

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I always love giving gifts, so yes, for family and friends, most definitely I will be sending gifts. For me, I know it sounds silly, but, I am okay. I like to live by the act of giving. In all honesty, I am good with no materialistic gifts.

– Lindsay Lohan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It does n’t seem likely that someone would want to cut it up and sell it as it would lose too much value. To steal something that John Kennedy ca n’t liquidate is silly.

– John Kennedy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I just hope girls don’t do silly things like this and [her death] raises awareness, when she was just 20 months she had a livor tumor that was six pounds and she had chemotherapy for a year and a bit and a full transplant.

– Samantha James

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I always say if you can't forgive the people you love, then who can you forgive? … I'm not going to let a silly kiss ruin the rest of our lives.

– De Lesseps

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We love each other, i always say if you can't forgive the people you love, then who can you forgive? … I'm not going to let a silly kiss ruin the rest of our lives.

– The Countess

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What troubles me... I guess when I did that silly thing at the Republican convention, talking to the chair.

– Clint Eastwood

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a little bit of a follow-through from late on Friday, when the prices got kind of silly because of month-end.

– Charles Comiskey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I often felt that I was being given unfair marks and that the judges were not being objective, as they were mixing up sport and politics, to be always first is completely normal for me, as it is for my great country, which certain silly people don’t agree with.

– Svetlana Khorkina

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With any election, for whatever silly reason, it seems to dampen consumer confidence, it's common knowledge that things just don't fly. If you look at the U.K. with (the) Brexit, certainly the corporates have come off.

– Flight Centre

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The idea of not voting – you’re sacrificing your Christian worldview on the altar of political expediency, it is silly to talk about not voting for either candidate. Every single Christian should vote.

– Samuel Rodriguez

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is silly to talk about not voting for either candidate. Every single Christian should vote. samuel Rodriguez don’t just stay home and not vote – Samuel Rodriguez vote.

– Billy Graham

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

These letters put to bed once and for all the silly speculation that a few birds could hamstring the greatest fighting force in the history of the world.

– Raul Grijalva

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I got a call from the principal that afternoon and she said there had been a negative parent reaction and they had decided to edit out all political references, it seems so silly.

– Laurie Mattaliano

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The idea that the government doesn't have some other way to do this is really a pretty silly argument.

– Mark Rienzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's just a silly symbol thought up by the elite, they are always trying to fool the people.

– Cleber Goncalves

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They were predicting they were going to win like four states, they won some caucus somewhere. What was it, Minnesota or something? That's really, that's...frankly it doesn't even aggravate me because it's silly.

– John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If I want to buy a new house then I can go around and I can check to see whether there is damp patches around or whether the current owners have painted over and tried to hide any issues with leaks or damp patches, so that's another great example, also silly things like I'm going into the bakers and getting the freshest bread, you can point the phone up and identify where the freshest bread is. Or I let my dog out in the evening and it's pitch black, so now I can find my dog without having to chase around and rummage in bushes.

– Pete Cunningham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't know, this back and forth is silly, ultimately it's not about me, it's not about Ted, it's not about Donald. It's about what is this country going to look like when my 15-year-old graduates from college.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The allegations of somehow fraud -- the last I checked, passing on news stories about breaking news that is true and accurate is, and should, be part of the democratic process. And all of the rest of it is just silly noise.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I always swore I would never take an Instagram of him, and I was on my phone one day and thought what the hell is happening? i honestly saw it as sort of silly before I started doing it. I thought it was a waste of time to dress my dog up, make him look certain ways and then share it with random strangers.

– Hunter Lawrence

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They can do silly things, what creates bear markets differs, but the process that investors go through is the same. You'll get denial because people think that the old paradigm holds.

– Dominic Wallington

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From Apple, I could n’t even get a silly little password, it just seems nonsense.

– Donna Bush

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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