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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.

Simon Cowell

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
SIMON COWELL

Flattery Nice Stranger
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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Artist Country People Song Understand Years
It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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Country Intention Mean People
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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Circles Full Circle
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
Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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People Perfect Thinking
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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Levels School Three
Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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Boredom Equal Rules
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Actors Genius Thinking
I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
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Being Different People Want
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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Hard Work People Work
I love producing shows. And so when you’re on a show where other people are making decisions you don’t necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.
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Decisions People Shows
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
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
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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People Phones Stuff
I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.
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Artist Feelings Shows

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 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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