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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.

Simon Cowell

Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
SIMON COWELL

Boredom Equal Rules
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
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 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
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
SIMON COWELL

Animals Stars
I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.
SIMON COWELL

People Phones Stuff
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
SIMON COWELL

Circles Full Circle
I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
SIMON COWELL

Country Home People Safe
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
SIMON COWELL

Hard Work People Work
It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
SIMON COWELL

Conflict Interesting Personality
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
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
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’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
SIMON COWELL

Done Jumping Thailand
I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
SIMON COWELL

Fancy Hate Spaghetti
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 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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