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The intention is to make people laugh, to make people happy. It's unselfish, it's in the service of others, and as a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. And it has a transformative power.

Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
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San Francisco County
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I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.
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I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
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I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
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George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.
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I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.
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It's hard to find peace with your thighs, but when they chafe, try to be grateful for them. Your thighs let you run and get you where you want to go. I have not just thigh peace but thigh happiness, and it begins with thigh gratitude.
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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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I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much.
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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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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
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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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Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.
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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.
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