Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

—Margaret Cho

About Margaret Cho

Portrait of Margaret Cho

Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actress and musician. In her stand-up routines she critiques social and political problems, especially about race and sexuality. She starred in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95).

More quotations from Margaret Cho

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

—Margaret Cho

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

—Margaret Cho

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

—Margaret Cho

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

—Margaret Cho

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

—Margaret Cho

More quotations tagged with “listening”

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

—Katharine Whitehorn

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

—Hugh Elliott

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

—Dorothy Sarnoff

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

—Albert Guinon

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