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  • Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. -- Jim Butcher
  • Only the paranoid survive. -- Andy Grove
  • I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. -- Howard Hughes
  • It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you. -- Bill Ayers
  • Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. -- Andy Grove
  • I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard. -- Seth Rogen
  • I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. -- J. D. Salinger
  • If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. -- Margaret Atwood
  • I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. -- Brian Molko
  • I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it. -- Johnny Depp
  • Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard. -- Matt Damon
  • The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs. -- Thom Yorke
  • I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say. -- Andy Kindler
  • A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. -- John Avlon
  • I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares. -- Jonny Greenwood
  • I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed. -- Alan Alda
  • How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. What do you call that? Billy thought. That reconstitutitive intelligence, berserker meme-splicing, seeing in nothings first patterns, then correspondence, then causality and dissident sense.Vardy even smiled. "Paranoid," he said. "Theology. -- China Mieville
  • Even paranoid people have enemies. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • Even a paranoid can have enemies. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching. -- Patrick Carman
  • Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. -- Kurt Cobain
  • Just because youre paranoid doesnt mean they arent out to get you -- Woody Allen
  • A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse. -- Molly Ivins
  • There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't. -- Shirley MacLaine
  • I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -- Emo Philips
  • 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
  • [ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon. -- Gore Vidal
  • Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. -- Margaret Atwood
  • I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year. -- Charles Bukowski
  • And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it. -- Thom Yorke
  • The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it. -- Rick Pitino
  • I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment. -- Doug Stanhope
  • My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. -- Martha Beck
  • What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
  • My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. -- Rita Rudner
  • Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so. -- Stephen Kinzer
  • The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American. -- Barry Eisler
  • To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved. -- Paul McCartney
  • He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him. -- Mark Rydell
  • This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. -- Salman Rushdie
  • 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
  • Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things. -- Matt Damon
  • I've had paranoid panic attacks. -- Katherine Heigl
  • The paranoid is never entirely mistaken. -- Sigmund Freud
  • I think I've always been paranoid. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
  • You can never be too paranoid. -- Cathy Crimmins
  • My mom was paranoid about my safety. -- Jane Smiley
  • In this world only the paranoid survive. -- Dean Koontz
  • The Academy is paranoid about its image. -- Roger Ebert
  • Assume the best but hire paranoid people. -- Evan Williams
  • Call me paranoid. I´m frequently right. -- Mira Grant
  • I'm not paranoid,I just don't trust people. -- Rudy Giuliani
  • I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid. -- Sylvia Plath
  • Rollin wit a posse full of paranoid drugdealaz! -- Tupac Shakur
  • When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable. -- Helen Mirren
  • All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition. -- Mario Puzo
  • I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies. -- Rahm Emanuel
  • I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage! -- John Cusack
  • I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid. -- China Mieville
  • I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid. -- Iain Banks
  • I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? -- David Foster Wallace
  • I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? -- David Foster Wallace
  • A paranoid is someone who has all the facts. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day. -- Dan Wells
  • The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream. -- Kenneth Oppel
  • During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid. -- David Sylvian
  • The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I wanna smoke pot, but I can't, cause I'm too paranoid. -- Drew Barrymore
  • I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror. -- Richard Lewis
  • Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control. -- Taylor Dayne
  • If you're paranoid long enough, sooner or later you're gonna be right. -- Kinky Friedman
  • Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. -- Max Brooks
  • High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental. -- Thomas Kinkade
  • Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go. -- James Alan Gardner
  • It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller. -- Alice Winocour
  • Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional -- Russian
  • I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. -- Gore Vidal
  • Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid, -- Satoshi Kanazawa
  • I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are. -- Don DeLillo
  • Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me -- Don Darkes
  • I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I'm way more paranoid now. -- Gerard Butler
  • I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid. -- Rick Pitino
  • I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. -- Umberto Eco
  • Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see. -- Tupac Shakur
  • There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. -- Dean Koontz
  • If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen. -- John Green
  • You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it. -- Lou Gerstner
  • Experiences might teach us to be cautious, but never to be paranoid. Paranoia is a limiter of destiny -- Mr Imbuya
  • The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that -- Patricia Schroeder
  • I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
  • I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way. -- Umberto Eco
  • I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round. -- Dennis Miller
  • Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement. -- Ayelet Waldman
  • No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. -- William Blum
  • We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that! -- Robin Williams
  • I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. -- Alex Gibney
  • Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. -- Bill Maher
  • No INSECURITY makes us sociopathic; too much makes us paranoid; but a little keeps us humble and introspective-a good thing... -- J.R. Wirth
  • My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. -- Jon Ronson
  • A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody. -- Robert Breault
  • There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. -- Dean Koontz
  • I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it. -- Justine Bateman
  • I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much. -- Ellie Goulding
  • I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it. -- Brian Wilson
  • I got a new dog. He's a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he's not sure what I threw him. -- Steven Wright
  • If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class. -- Robert Breault
  • You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. -- Steven Wright
  • Thing about witches; we're a paranoid lot. Call it a side effect of living in a world obsessed with seeing you burn. -- Laura Oliva
  • I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being. -- Stan Dale
  • The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime. -- J. G. Ballard
  • I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one. -- Uma Thurman
  • The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers. -- Joel Salatin
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  • Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them. -- Charlie Brooker
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