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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.

Simon Cowell

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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Country Legacy People Talking Thinking
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
I’ve had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year – who cares?
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Botox Cares Who Years
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 have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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Hated Lecturing People
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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Levels School Three
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
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Country Years Zero
I’ve always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn’t like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
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Boss Salary Wanted
I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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Done Jumping Thailand
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
Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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Britain Enormous Talent
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
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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Artist Country People Song Understand Years
You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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Hate Mosquitoes Want
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
Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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People Perfect Thinking
Have I got a black book? Yes, it’s called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates – working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.
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Book Country People Phones
I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.
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People Phones Stuff
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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Addiction Baths Sometimes 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
You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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Beats Country Crushed People
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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Flattery Nice Stranger
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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Country Dresses Female People
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
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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Circles Full Circle
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

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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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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