Margaret Cho Quotes

I can't even look at those 'women's magazines' anyway. I love fashion, but I look at the pictures of the skinny models, and they're wearing clothes I can't even fit on my fingers. And I look at that and I think, if that is what a woman is supposed to look like, then I must not be one.

Margaret Cho

• Women
• Fashion

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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Best
  • Struggle

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Time
  • Important
  • Better

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Yourself

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Free
  • Motion
  • Friction

• In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Islam

• When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
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• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Best

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• About homophobes As long as they're homophobic behind closed doors, and don't hurt anyone, I'm fine with it.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Long
  • Hurt

• It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Reality

• I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

  

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• The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Up
  • Angry

• When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin
  • Live
  • American
  • Today

• I can't even look at those 'women's magazines' anyway. I love fashion, but I look at the pictures of the skinny models, and they're wearing clothes I can't even fit on my fingers. And I look at that and I think, if that is what a woman is supposed to look like, then I must not be one.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Women
  • Fashion