It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
SIMON COWELLAnything 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.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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.
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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 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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There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
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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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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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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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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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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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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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I didn’t realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?
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Have I got a black book? Yes, it’s called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates – working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.
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