William Hung (Hung Hing Cheong) Quotes

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

William Hung

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• Talent
• Laughing
• Idiot

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• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

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• I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.

  

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• I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

  

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• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  

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• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  

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• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

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• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

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• When it comes to underwear, there's nothing worse than a visible panty line. Sometimes it seems like nobody knows that seamless underwear exists. But Calvin Klein makes them. Commando makes them. Hanky Panky makes them. You don't need a drawer full; a few pairs will suffice.

  

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• I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

  

  William Hung
  • People
  • Talent
  • Laughing