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• My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

  Jon Ronson

  Paranoia, Ends, Force

  RINF News Interview, rinf.com.

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• We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Husband, Couple, Father

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• The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.

  Nigel Cole

  Nice, Insane, Directors

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• I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

  Andy Dick

  Who I Am, Hats, Cry

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

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• I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

  Brian Wilson

  Attention, Littles, Used

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• I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Long, Way

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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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• I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Negative, Kind

  Source: deadline.com

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• Each time I think I've made a connection with someone... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them.

  Mark Waid

  Thinking, Connections, Freak

  "Superman: Birthright". Comic series by Mark Waid, 2003 - 2004.

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• As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

  Erica Jong

  Men, Littles, Speak

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.13, Penguin

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• I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.

  Freema Agyeman

  Taken, Sleep, Rooms

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• I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Thinking, Wind, People

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• People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.

  Daniel Handler

  Girl, Thinking, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

  Merle Haggard

  Government, People, Realizing

  "A Q&A With Merle Haggard". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 24, 2005.

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• I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Writing, Facts

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Way, Conspiracy

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for that. If anything threatens Israel, it is this form of paranoid thought that makes us think: "Oh God, they're going to kill us in two seconds! What should we do?"

  Yair Lapid

  Strong, Thinking, Israel

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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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• The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone. Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder.

  George Carlin

  Drug, Too Much, Coke

  "Toledo Window Box". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1974.

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• I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage!

  John Cusack

  Entourage, Schizophrenic, My Own

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• I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Russia, Ties

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice as a kind of cross-media attempt. I have indeed tried many different kinds of media over the past 20 years and collaborated in many different ways with people from many different fields. However, I like to understand this process as a kind of compensation for having once lost my "right of choice," an exercise of free choice and taking responsibility for any consequences that might result from it. To be honest, it's a bit of a paranoid act.

  Wang Jianwei

  Responsibility, Exercise, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fate, Dark, Office

  "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.

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• I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Children, Home, Son

  "Helena's Secret Pain". Interview with Liz Jones, www.standard.co.uk. November 16, 2005.

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