At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
SIMON COWELLSincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
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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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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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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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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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I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don’t want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.
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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.
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Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’
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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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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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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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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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