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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

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Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
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I helped deliver one of my best friend's children. I just was so amazed by my friend, because she was not just a woman, she was not just a mother. At that moment she was creation she was life she was God. And as I looked in her eyes, BOOM! Her pussy exploded.
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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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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 didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.
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That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire up these propaganda campaigns, these like, basically these lies that they are willing to lie to the public in order to manipulate them into doing what they want. And to me it doesn't make any sense.
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The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people for not following the commonly accepted routine, for not aligning themselves with the status quo.
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The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.
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Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
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I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.
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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
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I'm a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness - things like drag and raunchy comedy.
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There's vulnerability - so I have to make sure the audience is certain that I know what I'm doing. There's vulnerability there because my heart is open, but at the same time I definitely have a lot of weapons at my disposal. I have all the language, I have all of the moment - I have all of that to spar with somebody, to take anything on.
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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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I was about 17 or 18 and there were a lot of clubs and dancing. It was the beginning of rave culture and a lot of ecstasy. Because of all the drugs, there are certain songs that make me feel high.
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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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I will never stop complaining.
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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
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If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?
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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.
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