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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.

Simon Cowell

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
SIMON COWELL

Hated Lecturing People
Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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Enough Lesson Life Motivational
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’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.
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Country Home People Safe
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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Girl Kindness Zero
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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Better Feel Mind Play
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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Buns Criticism Hamburgers
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’ve had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year – who cares?
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Botox Cares Who Years
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 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
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
You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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Beats Country Crushed People
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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Ego Littles Much Times Too
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
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.
SIMON COWELL

Arguing People Records

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.

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