Margaret Cho quotes - page 3

So they cancelled our show, and gave the time slot to Drew Carey, because he's so skinny. (Margaret Cho)
We have no idea what our nation is doing in our name. I don't want to be anyone's captor, anyone's torturer. View quote
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I didn't know if I was going to mention my period on stage, but then I figured, if Richard Pryor had a period, he would talk about it. View quote
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Whenever you hear the words chink, nigger, beaner, paki, sissy, bull dyke, faggot, cunt, bitch, ho, jap...because through no fault of your own, you happen to be you, and apparently to the person saying it something is wrong with that. View quote
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I was on the floor in the emergency room, and the woman came up to me and said "Hi, my name is Gwen and I'm here to wash your vagina!" View quote
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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. View quote
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Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. View quote
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I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade? View quote
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Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness. View quote
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If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. View quote
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One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world. (Margaret Cho)
To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful! View quote
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In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner. View quote
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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. View quote
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. View quote
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I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to. View quote
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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. View quote
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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. View quote
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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. View quote
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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. View quote
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Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it. (Margaret Cho)
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. View quote
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Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. View quote
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We are more aware and politicized than ever before. There is very little ambiguity as to which side you are on. View quote
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Self-hatred is a devastatingly difficult habit to break, especially when we are mostly unaware of it. View quote
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Margaret Cho

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Photo: Derek Nicoletto, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Comedian
Born: December 5, 1968
Quotes count: 283
Wikipedia: Margaret Cho

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