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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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Good
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" I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world. "
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" My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong. "
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" Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious. "
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" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "
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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. "
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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 can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly. "
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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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" You always want to go to a party where you get an invite. "
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" 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. "
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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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