At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
SIMON COWELLI 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.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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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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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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My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
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I think if you’re an unhappy person, you’re always going to be an unhappy person. You’re probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I’m being honest.
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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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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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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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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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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