Margaret Cho quote: "Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Im not going to die because I failed as someone else. Im going to succeed as myself.
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 always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't ...
MARGARET CHO

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

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like 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

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

This show is a lot funnier and more outrageous. There are lots more jokes.
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 am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my...
MARGARET CHO

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

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

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

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

I Have Chosen To Stay and Fight
MARGARET CHO

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

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

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
MARGARET CHO

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

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

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

When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being on...
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 thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be...
JOHN CHO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.
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 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

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

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

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...
MARGARET MEAD

I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
MARGARET QUALLEY

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER

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

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

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
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

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
MARGARET THATCHER

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
MARGARET THATCHER

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
MARGARET THATCHER

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it fu...
MARGARET THATCHER

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both ...
MARGARET THATCHER

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
MARGARET THATCHER

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing...
MARGARET THATCHER

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those ...
MARGARET CAVENDISH

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD

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

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ...
MARGARET MEAD

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

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ...
MARGARET MEAD

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son...
MARGARET WALKER

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ...
MARGARET WALKER

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
MARGARET WALKER

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHER

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
MARGARET THATCHER

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
MARGARET ATWOOD

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they wa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holdi...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

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

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and...
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

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r...
MARGARET WALKER

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

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

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

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...
MARGARET ATWOOD

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
MARGARET THATCHER

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
MARGARET THATCHER

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
MARGARET ATWOOD

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,...
MARGARET ATWOOD

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
MARGARET ATWOOD

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit...
MARGARET ATWOOD

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

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
MARGARET MITCHELL

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

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
MARGARET MITCHELL

So you are a vampire."

"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo...
MARGARET STOHL

Don't let the bastards grind you down.
MARGARET ATWOOD

When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD

At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,...
MARGARET CHAN

Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT

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

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
MARGARET THATCHER

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
MARGARET ANDERSON

It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st...
MARGARET GELLER

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev...
MARGARET WEIS

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and lea...
MARGARET THATCHER

This lady is not for turning.
MARGARET THATCHER

Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to Engla...
MARGARET ATWOOD

They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all...
MARGARET ATWOOD

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
MARGARET ATWOOD

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

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
MARGARET THATCHER

I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and fla...
MARGARET ANDERSON

I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attrac...
MARGARET STOHL

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hot...
MARGARET STOHL

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

Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
MARGARET LINDSEY

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER

Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. ...
MARGARET THATCHER

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
MARGARET THATCHER

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in yo...
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 you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
MARGARET MEAD

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

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

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Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

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