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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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" 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 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. "

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

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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. "

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" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "

" I don't think I can do this anymore. "

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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. "

" There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time. "

" Sometimes when you have a record out, you think you're going to go in at No. 1 but you go in at No. 8. So your second record has to be better. That's how I treat it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob. "

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" Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. "

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

" I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time. "

" I'm going to give all my money away, eventually. I don't believe in all this hand-down stuff. Even if I had kids, I don't think I'd want to give them everything. "

" I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels. "

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