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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.

Simon Cowell

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.
SIMON COWELL

Ego Littles Much Times Too
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
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.
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Arguing People Records
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
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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Jobs Lessons Want
Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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Enough Lesson Life Motivational
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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Hated Lecturing People
I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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Fancy Hate Spaghetti
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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Car Magazines Only
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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Circles Full Circle
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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Break Broken Hearted Moving
I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
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Born Dad Son Thinking
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Actors Genius Thinking
Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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Britain Enormous Talent
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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Animals Stars
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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Country Home People Safe
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
I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.
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People Thinking Worry
Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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Gestures Needs Thinking
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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Country Eight Idols Season
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
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
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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Capital Punctuation Stills
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
Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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Boredom Equal Rules
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’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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Country Intention Mean People

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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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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