Simon Cowell Quotes

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Simon Cowell

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : October 7, 1959

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

Simon Cowell

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.

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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.

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

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My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

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

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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!

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

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

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I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

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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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I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

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If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

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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.

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I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

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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.

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You are a saucy little thing aren't you?

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

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