Margaret Cho Quotes

When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.

Margaret Cho

• Live
• Family
• Opportunity
• Dance
• Hurt
• Color

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• River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Struggle

• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Power

• In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Present

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Enough
  • Retirement
  • Saving

• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Long
  • Struggle
  • Alive

• How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Know

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Better
  • Down

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Rest
  • France

• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Good
  • Brooklyn
  • Funky

• There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Words

• I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Like
  • Write

• If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

  

  Ami Bera
  • Done
  • America
  • Relationship

• Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Live
  • Society
  • Culture

• When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Live
  • Family
  • Opportunity