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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.

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.
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Air Country Hours People Tape
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.
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Addiction Baths Sometimes Three
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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Born Dad Son Thinking
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
I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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Fancy Hate Spaghetti
It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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Country Intention Mean 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.’
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Jobs Lessons Want
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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Hated Lecturing People
It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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Feelings Hurt Opinion
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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Hard Work People Work
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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Artist Country People Song Understand Years
I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.
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Competition Hard Mean Work
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.
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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.
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Honest Person Thinking Unhappy
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
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Achievement Artist Made
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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Broken Shows Song Television

Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.

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