Top 100 Margaret Cho Quotes
#1. Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
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#3. You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.
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#4. We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
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#5. I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.
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#6. Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.
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#7. I don't know why it's anyone's business! People do what they need to do. I did it, and it was nowhere near as traumatic as being raped. I was so numb for so long that sex work for me was not a big deal.
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#8. When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?
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#9. 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.
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#10. I've worked with incredible producers who have also taken my voice and brought it to another level. I think I have some natural abilities, but it's the technique that I've been learning from the best that keeps me going. I'm really honored to do it.
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#11. People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.
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#12. My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.
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#13. 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!
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#14. Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.
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#15. Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
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#16. I am star-struck but also I've known a lot of people for a long time. Like I'm super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I've known them for 17 years. So it's kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!
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#17. As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.
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#18. I want to get married but I look at husbands the same way I look at tattoos. I want one, but I can't decide what I want, and I don't want to be stuck with something I'd grow to hate and have surgically removed.
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#19. It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
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#20. I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.
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#21. You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.
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#22. When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.
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#23. I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.
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#24. I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.
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#25. I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them.
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#26. If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.
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#27. I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.
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#28. My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.
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#29. I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.
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#31. [Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.
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#32. The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.
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#33. I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you ... I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."
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#34. In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.
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#35. Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.
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#36. Started out, Funny, sexy, zaftig Margaret Cho ... What is zaftig? Isn't that German for big fat pig? I guess I was lucky- zaftig is kind of a nice word. It could have been, Funny, sexy, OBESE Margaret Cho.
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#37. Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.
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#38. George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.
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#39. I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.
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#40. I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.
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#41. I refer to myself as gay, but I'm married to a man.
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#42. Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
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#43. [Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.
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#44. If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
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#45. I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.
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#46. I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'
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#47. I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.
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#48. People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.
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#49. If you have sex, it should be for you, not for the other person.
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#51. I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
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#52. Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.
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#53. My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.
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#54. The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
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#55. Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.
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#56. I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body
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#57. If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, 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.
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#58. The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
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#59. You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.
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#60. I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.
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#61. I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.
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#62. I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.
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#63. My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.
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#64. Why do Republicans hate gay marriage so much? They certainly don't hate gay prostitutes.
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#66. That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.
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#67. The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.
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#68. I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.
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#69. If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.
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#71. My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to.
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#72. I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.
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#73. I'm not playing the race card. I'm playing the rice card.
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#74. I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately.
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#75. If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?
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#76. 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.
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#77. Strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.
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#78. My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.
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#79. My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.
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#80. 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.
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#81. I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.
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#82. I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.
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#83. I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much.
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#84. I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.
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#85. I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.
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#86. Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
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#87. Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.
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#88. I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.
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#89. Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
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#90. All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex.
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#91. I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.
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#92. This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.
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#93. I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.
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#94. I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.
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#95. Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.
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#96. Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.
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#97. I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.
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#98. I don't like people telling other people what to do. Sex work for a lot of women is really important, especially in countries where women don't have a lot of power. Here we can have at least some form ... of making money.
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#99. Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.
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#100. Anything Vince Clarke, whether it's Erasure, Yaz, or Depeche Mode. It's basically R&B with synths. It's very sexy music and perfect for gay sex.
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