Paranoid Quotes - Page 3

• Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

  Dan Wells

  Clock

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• When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Teenager, People

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• 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

  Depression, Mental Illness, Psychotic

  Dean Koontz (1999). “Seize the Night”, Bantam

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• You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

  Steven Wright

  Depression, Nice, Scare

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• I think I've always been paranoid.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Thinking

  "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.

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• The paranoid one's wards are still active. They keep me several feet from the building." "But not his car," I said, a smile tugging at my lips. Barrons would go nuts if he knew that V'lane had touched his Viper. And stretched out on it nude? He'd have an aneurysm.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Nuts, Feet, Car

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Shadowfever: Fever:”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

  Richard Lewis

  Funny, Humor, Mirrors

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• Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Law, Enforcement, Reason

  "The Case for Taking a Very Little Bit of LSD Nearly Every Day". Interview with Jenny Luna, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2017.

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• All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

  Mario Puzo

  Gambling, Superstitions

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• A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Knowledge, Facts

  Quoted in Toronto Star, 22 Apr. 1989

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• Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Littles, Association

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• Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Mean, People, Personality

  "‘The Man’ Interviews: Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy". www.hollywood.com.

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• If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

  John Green

  Happens, Happenings, Ifs

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• You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

  Lou Gerstner

  Comfortable, Loses

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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• High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Culture, Sentimental, Sentiments

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• Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

  Max Brooks

  Vacuums, Secrecy, Speculation

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• 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

  Tolerance, Stronger, Culture

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• Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

  Evan Williams

  People, Assuming

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• 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

  Self, Regimes, Psychiatry

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.

  Ziggy Marley

  People, Energy, Scared

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

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• I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

  Woody Allen

  Softball, Morning, Team

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• I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

  China Mieville

  Ifs

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• I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Drug, Police

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• It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

  Colin Firth

  Loser, Used, One Time

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• We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Real, World, Fantasy

  Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.29, Vintage

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