The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
SIMON COWELLSincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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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 still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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I’m a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you’re OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
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I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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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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It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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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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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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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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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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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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