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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

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.
SIMON COWELL

Attitude Choices Decision
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

Girl Kindness Zero
At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
SIMON COWELL

Cocky Thinking World
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
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.
SIMON COWELL

Country Legacy People Talking Thinking
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
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.
SIMON COWELL

Boss Salary Wanted
There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
SIMON COWELL

Married Needs Stories
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
SIMON COWELL

Car Magazines Only
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 still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
SIMON COWELL

Capital Punctuation Stills
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.
SIMON COWELL

Alternatives Country People Rocks Snow
Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
SIMON COWELL

Gestures Needs Thinking
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
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.
SIMON COWELL

Laughing Mean 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.
SIMON COWELL

Book Country People Phones
I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
SIMON COWELL

Born Dad Son Thinking
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
SIMON COWELL

Circles Full Circle
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
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.
SIMON COWELL

Being Different People Want
Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
SIMON COWELL

Boredom Equal Rules
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.
SIMON COWELL

Honest Person Thinking Unhappy
You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
SIMON COWELL

Beats Country Crushed People
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
SIMON COWELL

Country Dresses Female People
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
You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
SIMON COWELL

Hate Mosquitoes Want
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.
SIMON COWELL

Addiction Baths Sometimes 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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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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