Margaret Cho quote: "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."

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordina...
MARGARET CHO

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...
MARGARET CHO

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO

I don't really have an agenda. I don't care about being on a sitcom or making an impression [to the ...
MARGARET CHO

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
MARGARET CHO

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex—ever. Now that the milk is free, w...
MARGARET CHO

[She has a somewhat clandestine method of changing her own attitudes.] I'm a belly dancer! It's my o...
MARGARET CHO

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like yo...
MARGARET CHO

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -
MARGARET CHO

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing t...
MARGARET CHO

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
MARGARET CHO

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime yo...
MARGARET CHO

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
MARGARET CHO

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life fo...
MARGARET CHO

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a re...
MARGARET CHO

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
MARGARET CHO

Its like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone elses story.
MARGARET CHO

Im not going to die because I failed as someone else. Im going to succeed as myself.
MARGARET CHO

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with...
MARGARET CHO

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.
MARGARET CHO

This show is a lot funnier and more outrageous. There are lots more jokes.
MARGARET CHO

I don't really have an agenda. I don't care about being on a sitcom or making an impression [to the ...
MARGARET CHO

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I a...
MARGARET CHO

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in Americ...
MARGARET CHO

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my...
MARGARET CHO

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
MARGARET CHO

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the unio...
MARGARET CHO

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
MARGARET CHO

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
MARGARET CHO

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There&#...
MARGARET CHO

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO

It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand...
MARGARET CHO

I love the word "faggot," because it describes my kind of guy. You see, I am a fag hag. Fag hags are...
MARGARET CHO

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.
MARGARET CHO

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when the...
MARGARET CHO

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way...
MARGARET CHO

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire li...
MARGARET CHO

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
MARGARET CHO

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look...
MARGARET CHO

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the...
MARGARET CHO

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't ...
MARGARET CHO

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
MARGARET CHO

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe befo...
MARGARET CHO

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but t...
MARGARET CHO

And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into a...
MARGARET CHO

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right directio...
MARGARET CHO

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
MARGARET CHO

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharp...
MARGARET CHO

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the...
MARGARET CHO

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.
MARGARET CHO

[Fun and games for sure, but with an underlying middle finger toward growing intolerance in mainstre...
MARGARET CHO

I Have Chosen To Stay and Fight
MARGARET CHO

I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local ne...
MARGARET CHO

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate
MARGARET CHO

Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country,...
MARGARET CHO

I think reality television is such a special talent.
MARGARET CHO

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.
ZEN CHO

I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It'...
JOHN CHO

It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We'...
JOHN CHO

How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still no...
ZEN CHO

The thing about kissing men - how do people stand it? The stubble is maddening.
JOHN CHO

I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. Yo...
JOHN CHO

I try not to think about my ranking because it could change so quickly - it's not a big deal. It's a...
IRENE CHO

If there is a linking code, there has to be some kind of written confirmation or affidavit that the ...
MILDRED CHO

All of my teammates are unique. We're all a family.
IRENE CHO

I find time to sleep. I just find time to sleep at weird times.
IRENE CHO

It's so funny that Hollywood has become so entrenched in its formulas. Because what I've exp...
JOHN CHO

With 'The Exorcist,' a lot of things went into it. I hadn't seen the show until they ask...
JOHN CHO

The $30 to $40 phone probably does not give us enough margins.
JUNO CHO

I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.
ZEN CHO

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.
ZEN CHO

But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing.
ZEN CHO

I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Ho...
JOHN CHO

I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual,...
JOHN CHO

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about com...
JOHN CHO

Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real peop...
JOHN CHO

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look bac...
JOHN CHO

The goal of Asians in the arts is plurality of roles. I've always been hindered by me over-think...
JOHN CHO

Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out...
ZEN CHO

Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the s...
ZEN CHO

Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I w...
JOHN CHO

The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.
JOHN CHO

When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being on...
JOHN CHO

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be...
JOHN CHO

Whenever I'm on my way to a premiere or something, I always have a good laugh in the car... beca...
JOHN CHO

But one may like someone enough to kiss them without liking them enough to confide in them. The two ...
ZEN CHO

I think from the growth we've experienced in the last few years it wouldn't be that long ... Next ye...
JUNO CHO

Seventy million with a solid product portfolio and with the right average selling price is our goal.
JUNO CHO

More surprising was that we had not even set up a proper incubation facility yet. When the eggs came...
NYO CHO TONG

Canada was built on dead beavers.
MARGARET ATWOOD

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this...
MARGARET THATCHER

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
MARGARET MEAD

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ...
MARGARET MEAD

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
MARGARET THATCHER

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of pers...
MARGARET ATWOOD

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet bein...
MARGARET CAVENDISH

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which the...
MARGARET THATCHER

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have ...
MARGARET CHAN

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroa...
MARGARET THATCHER

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.'...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
MARGARET MEAD

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its lea...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the...
MARGARET GELLER

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEAD

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada,...
MARGARET ATWOOD

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. The...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who e...
MARGARET MEAD

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother...
MARGARET SANGER

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as...
MARGARET THATCHER

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEAD

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
MARGARET THATCHER

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway...
MARGARET THATCHER

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
MARGARET ATWOOD

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
MARGARET ATWOOD

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER

Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With n...
MARGARET MEAD

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of ...
MARGARET MEAD

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
MARGARET GATTY

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
MARGARET OLIPHANT

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for lo...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
MARGARET DELAND

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
MARGARET MITCHELL

The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, ca...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world ...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people ...
MARGARET MEAD

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of fals...
MARGARET FULLER

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself,...
MARGARET MEAD

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservati...
MARGARET THATCHER

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you
MARGARET ATWOOD

I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm t...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
MARGARET SACKVILLE

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing ove...
MARGARET ATWOOD

The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared,...
MARGARET MEAD

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
MARGARET MEAD

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
MARGARET OLIPHANT

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
MARGARET PETERS

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosoph...
MARGARET THATCHER

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as...
MARGARET MAHY

وقتی دردپایان می یابد،دیگر در یاد چه کسی می ماند؟ تنها �...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
MARGARET MEAD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
MARGARET MEAD

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
MARGARET MEAD

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.
MARGARET THATCHER

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t...
MARGARET THATCHER

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
MARGARET THATCHER

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa...
MARGARET THATCHER

This lady is not for turning.
MARGARET THATCHER

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
MARGARET THATCHER

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
MARGARET THATCHER

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER

My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being hel...
MARGARET MITCHELL

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is...
MARGARET ATWOOD

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every ...
MARGARET RUTHERFORD

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past thr...
MARGARET CARLSON

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is to...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

He loved politicians - even Republicans.
MARGARET TRUMAN

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?.
MARGARET GATTY

I am shocked that this is happening in the U.S.
MARGARET ARNOLD

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, secon...
MARGARET ANDERSON

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too
MARGARET ANDERSON

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
MARGARET ANDERSON

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur...
MARGARET ANDERSON

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.
MARGARET MAHY

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.
MARGARET STOHL

All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.
MARGARET STOHL

Claim yourself.
MARGARET STOHL

We understand more than we know.
MARGARET ATWOOD

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling ti...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
MARGARET THATCHER

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No"
MARGARET SMITH

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says wi...
MARGARET MARON

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
MARGARET MITCHELL

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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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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