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• Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic.

  Bill Maher

  Doctors, Tvs, Opinion

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• I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

  Warren Ellis

  Taken, Bad Ass, Doors

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• Well . . . he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he loses sight of everything else. He becomes isolated from everyone and everything. Paranoid. He feels like he can't trust anyone around him ever. In the end, he loses everything, even his life. And for what? Total stupidity, if you ask me.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Sight, Stupidity

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The narcissist looks at his reflection in it. The OCD guy thinks you don't keep it clean enough.The antisocial--" Puts his fist through it because it reminds him of his father." Annie said. She'd read all of mom's books, too. And the paranoid one would be jealous of the amount of time you spend cooking." Mom said Were you using that microwave again? Is something going on between the two of you? I caught you looking right at its clock." Annie said.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Father, Book

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Islam, World, Growing

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.218, Random House

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• Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

  James Alan Gardner

  Worry, Littles

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Trapped”, p.372, Open Road Media

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• You can have all the muskets you want! You can even have assault muskets!...Their (the NRA's) paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of an imaginary Hitler.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Gun, Reality

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• Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you refused to get out because you were convinced that the back of your head was going to fall off? "That third story happened to a guy named Jace in my dorm. Me and Sam and another guy in our hall took turns reading "Paradise Lost" through the locked door. I think it made him more paranoid, though." "That's not true," he says. "Well, he *seemed* more paranoid to me," I say. "And he still gets a little weired out when any one mentions angels.

  Holly Black

  Weed, Fall, Reading

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• Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Law, Drug

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• One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

  Alan Watts

  Men, Ego, Mind

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.66, New World Library

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• I've had paranoid panic attacks.

  Katherine Heigl

  Panic Attacks, Panic

  "Katherine Heigl positively glows". Interview with William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 21, 2007.

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• I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.

  John Lennon

  Real, Sitting, Joints

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 180), 2000.

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• If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

  Art Modell

  Team, Years, Becoming

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• I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

  David Foster Wallace

  One Line, Enough, Knows

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• 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

  America, Mecca, Youth

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• Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

  Tupac Shakur

  Weed, Rap, Focus

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me Now, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

  Martin Gardner

  Queens, Kings, Teaching

  "Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.

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• 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

  Opposites, Optimism, Plot

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• One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.

  Stephen Fry

  Secret, Lessons, Taught

  "Stephen Fry's Idea of Greatness". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• 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

  Sarcastic, Fake People, Husband

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• Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Crazy, United States, Today

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• Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid.

  Satoshi Kanazawa

  Believe, Believe In God, Humans

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• In this world only the paranoid survive.

  Dean Koontz

  Wise, World, This World

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• No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

  William Blum

  Government, Matter, Imagine

  "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower". Book by William Blum, 2000.

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