Margaret Cho Quotes

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He spoke of us as if we were a kind of New Age Zelda and F. Scott — diving into the hotel fountains without care or repercussions, thinking we were beautiful and damned when actually we were just okay-looking and pathetic.

Margaret Cho
Los Angeles [is] possibly the rudest city in the nation, with a population that is exceedingly unhelpful. Once I was screamed at by the operator manning the 911 switchboard for trying to report a dead body I had seen on the street. Apparently, I was not the first caller, and somehow I should have known that.

Margaret Cho
Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.

Margaret Cho
Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

Margaret Cho
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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It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.

Margaret Cho
Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have.... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

Margaret Cho
To some men, the definition of selfish is that you don't think about them all the time.

Margaret Cho
These Christians today don't represent the Christianity I know. I want Jesus to come back and say, 'That's not what I meant!'

Margaret Cho
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.

Margaret Cho
No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives.... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life?... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

Margaret Cho
Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

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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.

Margaret Cho
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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We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late. We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives. To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life.

Margaret Cho