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It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

Simon Cowell

If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I’m pleasant, but the parts when I’m obnoxious.
SIMON COWELL

Air Country Hours People Tape
I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.
SIMON COWELL

Artist Feelings Shows
Of 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.
SIMON COWELL

Ego Littles Much Times Too
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
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
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
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
SIMON COWELL

Levels School Three
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
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
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
Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
SIMON COWELL

Enough Lesson Life Motivational
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
SIMON COWELL

Hated Lecturing People
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
SIMON COWELL

Circles Full Circle
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
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
You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
SIMON COWELL

Hate Mosquitoes Want

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