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The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

Simon Cowell

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.
SIMON COWELL

Alternatives Country People Rocks Snow
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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Buns Criticism Hamburgers
I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern… I’m pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.
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Broken Shows Song Television
I’ve had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year – who cares?
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Botox Cares Who Years
I think if you’re an unhappy person, you’re always going to be an unhappy person. You’re probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I’m being honest.
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Honest Person Thinking Unhappy
Anything I shouldn’t laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I’m bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I’m thinking to myself, ‘If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,’ and then I start laughing and I can’t stop.
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Laughing Mean Thinking
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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Flattery Nice Stranger
I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.
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Competition Hard Mean Work
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
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Competition Frustrated Mean
Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
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Girl Kindness Zero
I think the best singers in the world, historically, are American. Britain’s got its fair share, as well, but some of the greatest singers, ever, whether you’re talking about Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin, are from the legacy here.
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Country Legacy People Talking Thinking
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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Animals Stars
I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
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Country Home People Safe
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
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Country Years Zero
I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
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Born Dad Son Thinking
You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
SIMON COWELL

Beats Country Crushed People

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