It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
SIMON COWELLOf 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.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
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I think the best singers in the world, historically, are American. Britain’s got its fair share, as well, but some of the greatest singers, ever, whether you’re talking about Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin, are from the legacy here.
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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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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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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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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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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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At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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