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You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

Simon Cowell

The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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Car Magazines Only
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
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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Country Eight Idols Season
You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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Hate Mosquitoes Want
At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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Cocky Thinking World
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
Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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Enough Lesson Life Motivational
Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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Britain Enormous Talent
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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Capital Punctuation Stills
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
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 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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Important People Stupid
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.
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Decisions People Shows
It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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Country Intention Mean People
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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Break Broken Hearted Moving
I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.
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Alternatives Country People Rocks Snow
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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Circles Full Circle
You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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Beats Country Crushed People
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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Country Firsts People Wants Years
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
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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Advice Business Careers
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
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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People Phones Stuff
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
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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Book Country People Phones
I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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Done Jumping Thailand
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
SIMON COWELL

Levels School Three

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