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The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

Simon Cowell

It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
SIMON COWELL

Feelings Hurt Opinion
Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
SIMON COWELL

Enough Lesson Life Motivational
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
SIMON COWELL

Advice Business Careers
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.
SIMON COWELL

Country Years Zero
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.
SIMON COWELL

Country Firsts People Wants 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.
SIMON COWELL

Broken Shows Song Television
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.’
SIMON COWELL

Jobs Lessons Want
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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Car Magazines Only
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
Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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Boredom Equal Rules
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.
SIMON COWELL

Country Home People Safe
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
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Competition Frustrated Mean
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.
SIMON COWELL

Book Country People Phones
I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.
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Alternatives Country People Rocks Snow
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.
SIMON COWELL

Arguing People Records
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
SIMON COWELL

Achievement Artist Made

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