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It's okay for you to have relationships, but it's not okay to talk about them. It's not okay to be out or to be public about it. It's not okay to be photographed with your partner.

Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
Comedian
Fashion Designer
Film Actor
Musician
Television Actor
Voice Actor
San Francisco County
California
Margaret Moran Cho
Moran Cho
Cho Moran
Jo Moran
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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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Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.
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When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
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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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I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell.
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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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[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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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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I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.
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