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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.

Simon Cowell

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 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
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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Better Feel Mind Play
It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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Feelings Hurt Opinion
Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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Gestures Needs Thinking
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
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Ships Singing Song
Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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Boredom Equal Rules
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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Country Learned People Stress Way
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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Country Dresses Female People
You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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Hate Mosquitoes Want
Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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People Perfect Thinking
If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I’m pleasant, but the parts when I’m obnoxious.
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Air Country Hours People Tape
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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Levels School Three
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
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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Country Firsts People Wants Years
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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Ego Littles Much Times Too

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