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

Simon Cowell

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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Animals Stars
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
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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Break Broken Hearted Moving
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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Being Different People Want
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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Arguing People Records
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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Girl Kindness Zero
I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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Feels Love Much Pride
Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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People Perfect Thinking
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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Honest Person Thinking Unhappy
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Actors Genius Thinking
Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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Britain Enormous Talent
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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Car Magazines Only
Anything 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.
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Laughing Mean Thinking
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
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.’
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Jobs Lessons 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

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