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 COWELLIt’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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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.
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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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The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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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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I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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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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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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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.
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