Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter. Margaret Cho More Quotes by Margaret Cho More Quotes From Margaret Cho I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American. Margaret Cho manly crow counting I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much. Margaret Cho mirrors reflection trying Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race. Margaret Cho comedian race people Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. We cannot change anything until we accept that. I cannot do this alone. I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain. I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough. Margaret Cho love-myself had-enough hate We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late. We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives. To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life. Margaret Cho powerful love-is happy-life [Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel. Margaret Cho drug smoking comfort I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. Margaret Cho hangover hate winning I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them. Margaret Cho imagine dog order I will never stop complaining. Margaret Cho stop-complaining complaining Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move! Margaret Cho smile giving moving I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself. Margaret Cho funny-inspirational succeed dies I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful. Margaret Cho tattoo self thinking People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me. Margaret Cho terrified nice people I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool. Margaret Cho artist fun people Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible. Margaret Cho party would-be birthday That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true. Margaret Cho sexism racism world I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have. Margaret Cho responsibility mean moving 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. Margaret Cho asia heritage america I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it. Margaret Cho intervention obsessed song If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing. Margaret Cho want writing song