I love producing shows. And so when you’re on a show where other people are making decisions you don’t necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.
SIMON COWELLI actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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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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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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I actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
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I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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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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The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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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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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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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.
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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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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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I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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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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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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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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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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I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.
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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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What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.
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