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Famous Quotes By Simon Cowell

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We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable. — Simon Cowell

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You always want to go to a party where you get an invite. — Simon Cowell

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If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. — Simon Cowell

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I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper. — Simon Cowell

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I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am. — Simon Cowell

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My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different. — Simon Cowell

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I never knew how much love and pride I would feel. — Simon Cowell

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I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don't care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want. — Simon Cowell

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I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed. — Simon Cowell

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If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me. — Simon Cowell

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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.) — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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Good is not enough. You've got to be great. — Simon Cowell

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When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way. — Simon Cowell

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I hated school, but I love work. — Simon Cowell

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When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors. — Simon Cowell

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The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril. — Simon Cowell

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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here. — Simon Cowell

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Sincerity is romantic. I don't think you need gestures. — Simon Cowell

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Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world. — Simon Cowell

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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'
by Mariah Carey) — Simon Cowell

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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions. — Simon Cowell

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I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt. — Simon Cowell

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Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. — Simon Cowell

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I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.' — Simon Cowell

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People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love. — Simon Cowell

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I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling. — Simon Cowell

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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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I have very good advice to give to kids this age, which is, you shouldn't listen to your mum or dad and you just have to work it out for yourself. And the reason I've taken the age range down this year, and I never would have done it 10 years ago, is what I've seen with the success of Willow Smith. You don't have to be so cutesy anymore. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons. — Simon Cowell

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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. — Simon Cowell

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I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point. — Simon Cowell

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I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food. — Simon Cowell

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I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die — Simon Cowell

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I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show. — Simon Cowell

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It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence. — Simon Cowell

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The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important." — Simon Cowell

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You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much. — Simon Cowell

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Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake. — Simon Cowell

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I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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I've always treated the music business as a business. — Simon Cowell

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You are a saucy little thing aren't you? — Simon Cowell

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My heart, my lungs, my blood - they've all been checked. I remember one of the doctors almost being disappointed when he showed me the results because he couldn't wait to tell me what smoking was doing to me. But there was nothing there. — Simon Cowell

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When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me. — Simon Cowell

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I can't stand stage mothers. It doesn't work. You definitely feel that with the new generation of pop stars right now they've all managed to work it out for themselves. You have to have confidence in that. When you're young, you know your market better than I will. I love having young people on the show because I can learn from them. — Simon Cowell

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Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got. — Simon Cowell

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You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around. — Simon Cowell

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Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music. The fact that so many people are getting upset over this one song is hysterical. And if people like it, that's great. — Simon Cowell

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You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face. — Simon Cowell

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I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there. — Simon Cowell

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Most things in music go full circle eventually. — Simon Cowell

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What other people think about me is none of my business . — Simon Cowell

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If I had one dog, I'd want a hundred. If I had one kid, I'd probably want a hundred. I mean, it's just the way I am. — Simon Cowell

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Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people. — Simon Cowell

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Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious. — Simon Cowell

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I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts. — Simon Cowell

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Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock. — Simon Cowell

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That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad. — Simon Cowell

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What I'm interested in watching is to make sure that they give the right advice now to the contestants who are going forward because, you know, it's one thing just to criticize but you've got to also give, you know, good advice which is going to help them. Overall, I think they're a good panel. — Simon Cowell

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It's not our intention to be mean. That's just within us. — Simon Cowell

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My dad wasn't someone who was a great disciplinarian, we had a fun relationship, but he gave me really constructive advice in my life, which I still carry today and I do pass on to other people. So if I can have the same relationship with my son as I had with my dad, then I think he'll be very happy and I'll be very happy. — Simon Cowell

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The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams. — Simon Cowell

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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? — Simon Cowell

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Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids. — Simon Cowell

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For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant. — Simon Cowell

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When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.' — Simon Cowell

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My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession. — Simon Cowell

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There's one argument that says we shouldn't be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you've got to take it case by case. — Simon Cowell

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Being different is good; embrace it. — Simon Cowell

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If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her ... I like her. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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Every single negative can lead to a positive. Any negative situation ... don't get too down about it - you'll work it out. You learn it as you go along. You don't get smart at 17. You just don't unless you're one of a billion. it will happen over time and it's the getting there which will be the most fun. — Simon Cowell

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One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help. — Simon Cowell

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At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong. — Simon Cowell

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I don't think I can do this anymore. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell

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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. — Simon Cowell

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My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.' — Simon Cowell

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I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera they're absolutely appalling to the makeup people, or the waitress in a restaurant, you know? I don't like - I can't bear those kind of people. So I like people who are, you know, up front in your face. — Simon Cowell

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There's an expression in life: "You can only make one first impression." And that first impression has to be spectacular. So, I wait, and let people see it when it's ready to go. It's not a set rule, but I think it's the better way of working. People will agree with you because of your track record, but you want people to like it because it's good, not because you found it. — Simon Cowell

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I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up. — Simon Cowell

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The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life! — Simon Cowell

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I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it. — Simon Cowell

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Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. — Simon Cowell

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I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap. — Simon Cowell

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No, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless 'Do something that you're good at'. — Simon Cowell

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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. — Simon Cowell