What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.
SIMON COWELLI still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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You sounded like Dolly parton on helium.” (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'”Eight Days A Week.)
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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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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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.
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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
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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.
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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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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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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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I’m a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you’re OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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