Simon Cowell Quotes - Page 3

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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

  Dad, Taken, Kids

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

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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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  Song, Tv Shows, Broken

  "Simon Cowell is a Very Odd Boy" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

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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.

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  Stars, Ideas, Age

  "Q&A With Simon Cowell About U.S. Version Of 'The X Factor' For Fall 2011: “Zero Rules. Anybody Can Enter, Anybody Can Compete”". Interview with Tim Adler, deadline.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

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  Thinking, Shows, Audience

  "Clarkson Refuses to Let 'Idol' Use Her Songs". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2006.

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• If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

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  World, Singers, Boring

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• If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

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  Attention, Mouths, Controversial

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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.

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  Jobs, Government, Inspire

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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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  Ego, Littles, Too Much

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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.

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  Dog, Mutts, Three

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• The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

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  Assuming, Minutes, Very Happy

  "Q&A: Simon Cowell". "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 30, 2009.

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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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  Home, Safe, England

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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.

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  Air, Idols, Grace

  "'Idol' Judges: Fantasia Our Favorite". www.foxnews.com. October 7, 2005.

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• I've always treated the music business as a business.

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  Music Business, Treated

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• I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

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  People, Hated, Lecturing

  "Simon Cowell's Sun sermon decoded" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2010.

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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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  Stupid, People, Important

  "Simon Cowell's Personal UK Make Up Artist Julia Carta Talks About Working With Simon". justsimoncowell.wordpress.com. September 20, 2013.

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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... 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.

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  Teacher, Guitar, Giving

  "This Briton's got talent". Interview with David Walliams, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2012.

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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.

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  Song, Hate, People

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

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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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  Song, Artist, Years

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.

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  Stress, Way, I've Learned

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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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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  Girl, Zero, Kindness

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• You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.

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  Party, Want, Invites

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• I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

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  Boss, Salary, Wanted

  "Simply Simon". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2007.

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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.

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  Hard Work, Mean, Competition

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• There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

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  Needs, Stories, Married

  "Simply Simon". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2007.

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• Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

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  Watches, Want, Shows

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2011.

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