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  • Paranoia is knowing all the facts. -- Woody Allen
  • Paranoia is just having the right information. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love. -- Charles Manson
  • Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. -- Jack Abbott
  • Paranoia, the destroyer. -- Ray Davies
  • Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty
  • Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real. -- Pat Conroy
  • Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. -- Philip K. Dick
  • Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people. -- Paul Brodeur
  • There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something. -- Billy Joel
  • I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill. -- John Shirley
  • Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. -- Claude Steiner
  • Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified... -- Patricia Briggs
  • Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times. -- Michael Helm
  • Experiences might teach us to be cautious, but never to be paranoid. Paranoia is a limiter of destiny -- Mr Imbuya
  • Paranoia," Sam muttered. "You're going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you're talking to yourself. -- Michael Grant
  • Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on. -- Eric Christian Olsen
  • Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. -- Banksy
  • Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. -- Jack Abbott
  • Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same. -- William Nicholls
  • I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia. -- Cher
  • I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. -- Henry Rollins
  • Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created. -- Sam Keen
  • Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia. -- Piers Anthony
  • I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it. -- Nick Rhodes
  • A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. -- Luis Bunuel
  • Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. -- Mordecai Richler
  • I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia. -- Johnny Vegas
  • Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them. -- Timothy Leary
  • I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round. -- Dennis Miller
  • Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. -- Jim Butcher
  • Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it. -- Terry Pratchett
  • This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. -- Philip K. Dick
  • My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. -- Sydney Schanberg
  • Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. -- Jack Henry Abbott
  • But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way. -- Herbie Mann
  • A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you. -- Charles Manson
  • It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground. -- Germaine Greer
  • paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness -- John Lennon
  • Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia. -- Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia. -- Joanne Harris
  • Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. -- Mordecai Richler
  • African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us. -- Cynthia McKinney
  • There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault. -- Robert M. Hutchins
  • A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. -- Dan Savage
  • I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. -- Arthur Smith
  • I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century. -- Michael Eric Dyson
  • The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia. -- Felix Dennis
  • In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play. -- Darell Hammond
  • Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home. -- Shawn Amos
  • There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that. -- Meg Rosoff
  • Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated. -- Salman Rushdie
  • I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it. -- Emma Stone
  • Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia. -- Kenneth Fisher
  • There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world terror, paranoia, and bipolar disorder. That's about 2 percent of the population; roughly what the guy with the beard running on the Libertarian Party ticket gets when he runs for Congress. -- Stephen Rodrick
  • Candor disarms paranoia. -- Allen Ginsberg
  • Success demands paranoia. -- Joseph Finder
  • Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness. -- Stephen King
  • Total paranoia is just total awareness. -- Charles Manson
  • Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia. -- John Katzenbach
  • Call it not paranoia, but caution. -- Laura Anne Gilman
  • One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy." -- Marcus J. Ranum
  • I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position. -- Pat Conroy
  • I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge. -- Jonathan Nolan
  • I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again. -- Eddie Bravo
  • Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. -- Terence McKenna
  • Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much. -- Thomas Pynchon
  • After everything I've been through, the last thing I'm going to apologize for is my paranoia -- Richard Finney
  • Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? -- John Kennedy Toole
  • You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. -- Irvine Welsh
  • I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile. -- Nikki Cox
  • I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family. -- Jim Butcher
  • The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors. -- Tyrone Hayes
  • Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here. -- Amy Ray
  • Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia. -- Sydney Schanberg
  • There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking. -- Rawi Hage
  • When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia? -- Matthew S. Williams
  • My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. -- Jon Ronson
  • It was a trap after all," Alric said. He turned to Royce. "My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia. -- Michael J. Sullivan
  • Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia. -- Larry King
  • Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! -- Noga Alon
  • I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. -- Jules Feiffer
  • There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia. -- Jill Soloway
  • Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete. -- Kate Griffin
  • Everybody looking at you crazy, What you gon' do? Lift up your head and keep moving, Or let the paranoia haunt you? -- Kendrick Lamar
  • I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. -- John le Carre
  • There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care. -- Alain de Botton
  • Working under the Soviet system made you very paranoid - people were afraid of everything - and this paranoia is still in people's minds. -- Jaak Kilmi
  • The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected. -- John Coleman
  • My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room. -- Mark Henwick
  • A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia. -- Simon Sinek
  • It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event. -- Don DeLillo
  • Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party. -- Hillary Clinton
  • These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. -- Martin Amis
  • Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity. -- Beth Gibbons
  • It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis. -- Reid Hoffman
  • For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia. -- John Brunner
  • We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children. -- Thomas Harris
  • Every time I leave the house or we go anywhere, there is a paranoia. We always have to watch for specific cars and specific signs that we're being photographed. -- Megan Fox
  • Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States. -- Charles Duke
  • As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats. -- David Horsey
  • Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am. -- Veronica Roth
  • Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film. -- Dwight Schultz
  • I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
  • We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. -- Marianne Williamson
  • I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis. -- Ladyhawke
  • The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States. -- Rachel Maddow
  • I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow. -- David E. Hoffman
  • Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid. -- Edward Abbey
  • If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. -- Thomas Pynchon
  • People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. -- Adam Arkin
  • Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia." -- Wendi McLendon Covey
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