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 COWELLI’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?
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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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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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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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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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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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 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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At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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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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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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Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.
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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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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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