Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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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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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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 suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
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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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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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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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I think if you’re an unhappy person, you’re always going to be an unhappy person. You’re probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I’m being honest.
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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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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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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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I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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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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I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
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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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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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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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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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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’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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You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
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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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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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I think the best singers in the world, historically, are American. Britain’s got its fair share, as well, but some of the greatest singers, ever, whether you’re talking about Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin, are from the legacy here.
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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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