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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.

Simon Cowell

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.
SIMON COWELL

Air Country Hours People Tape
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
SIMON COWELL

Ships Singing Song
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.
SIMON COWELL

People Phones Stuff
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
It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
SIMON COWELL

Conflict Interesting Personality
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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Hard Work People Work
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
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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Competition Frustrated Mean
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’
SIMON COWELL

Jobs Lessons Want
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.
SIMON COWELL

Being Different People Want
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
SIMON COWELL

Animals Stars
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
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
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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Attitude Choices Decision
Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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People Perfect Thinking
You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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Hate Mosquitoes Want

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