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Margaret Cho is an American comedian, singer, writer, and television producer. Known for her unique sense of humor and insightful commentary on social issues, she was born on December 5, 1968. Cho, of Korean-American descent, often addresses topics such as race, gender, and sexual orientation in her work.

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“My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.”

Thinking Should Doe War Peace Attitude Depends Bombs Discussing My Attitude

Book:I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

“Im not a mom, but I think the word mother is about wisdom.”

Thinking Mother Mom

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“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.”

Thinking Happens Goal Projects Fulfillment Bad Things

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“I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection.”

Thinking Self Sex Reflection Self Reflection

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“In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the "feminine," or how I look in photographs. To me, it's irrelevant, which I think is really shocking to people in the industry that I'm in, because it's like, "You should always look good", but I honestly don't care. It's not important to me.”

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“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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“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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“I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.”

Thinking Doe Helping Political Silence Political Correctness Correctness

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“Something as important as marriage equality, which is now a constitutional right [in the USA], is something that cannot be denied. It's also very un-Christian, if you think about the way Christ was and Christ's teachings. This is not loving. This is anger. This is hatred. This is bigotry. And it's wrong.”

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“I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Identity Appeals Margins

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“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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“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.”

Thinking Challenges Taste Notion Polite Accused Bad Taste

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“What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.”

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“I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.”

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“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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“I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.”

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“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.”

Thinking Voice Natural Ability Levels Taken Incredibles Technique Producers Honored Natural Ability

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“I think I heard it [ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ] earlier. This was being played on a station in San Francisco called Live 105, which was a new wave station. It was one of the first stations to change its format in the early '80s. There was this wave of really strange music coming from Europe like Kraftwork and Freur.”

Thinking Firsts Heard Strange Europe Wave Stations 80s San Francisco Format Days Off Being Played Ferris Bueller

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“I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.”

People Thinking Use Hate Song Language Wish I Hate Lazy English Language Lazy Thinking

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“I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.”

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“I just think women are funnier than men.”

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“There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.”

Thinking Shows Guy Special Female Excited

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“There's this idea like feminism is humorless and humorless in a way that's like a whistleblower. Like you're going to - you're going to make sure that nobody has any fun. And that's not true at all. I think feminism allows me to do what I do, and I'm so grateful to the idea of it and grateful to all the women that came before.”

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“I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about.”

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“I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.”

Thinking Art Form Comedy Angry Outsiders

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“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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“I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.”

Thinking Way Body Opportunity Issues Your Body Best Way Get Over

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“I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.”

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“I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.”

Thinking Stuff Really Great

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“I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.”

People Thinking Mind Kind Home Loses Really Sad

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“I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.”

Thinking Want Self Disease Cures Contribution Self Deprecation

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“I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!”

Thinking Way Different Body Beautiful Millions Different Ways

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“I don't really know what 'selling out' is exactly. I would sell out if I could, but nobody's buying it. I would love to go mainstream, but my comedy is too edgy. It's always too dirty. It's always too filthy. I'm dying to sell out. But I love doing comedy, I love touring, and I think I would do everything for free.”

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“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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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Trying May Done Honest Honest With Yourself

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“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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“When people think the world of you, be careful with them.”

People Thinking World Careful Be Careful

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“I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?”

Thinking Gay Parades

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“I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.”

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“I think reality television is such a special talent.”

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“I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.”

Thinking Knows Want President Baby

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“I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.”

People Thinking Should Gay Married Should Have Gay People

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About the Author

Born: December 5, 1968
Known for: Comedian
Quotes: 267

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