Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
SIMON COWELLI’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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There’s one argument that says we shouldn’t be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you’ve got to take it case by case.
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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 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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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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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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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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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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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.
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