Paranoid Quotes

• You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • Work
  • Trust

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

  

  Serena Williams
  • Long
  • Black
  • Athlete

• You did it privately, not like now. Then you realise it's becoming your life and there are more important things. You can't sustain it. We had our dark times on drugs. We were down and paranoid.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Life
  • Drugs
  • Realise

• 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
  • Speak
  • Silent

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

  

  William Blum
  • Government
  • Imagine
  • Conspiracy

• A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Philosophy
  • Littles
  • Cynicism

• Only the paranoid survive.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Survive
  • Paranoid

• “I used to think that people worried about one world government were more than a little paranoid. Today, not so much.”

  

  Wesley J. Smith
  • People
  • Government
  • Paranoid

• Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Certain
  • Frustration
  • Sensitive

• 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 Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Money
  • Business
  • Pretty

• Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Mean
  • After
  • Paranoid

• I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Ignore
  • Jealous
  • Paranoid

• 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
  • Respect

• I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.

  

  George Blagden
  • Horse
  • Conflict
  • Historical

• If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.

  

  David Sheff
  • Kids
  • Scene
  • Streets

• Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Morbid

• 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

• I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Word
  • Paranoid

• She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Mean

• The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Never
  • Mistaken
  • Paranoid

• 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
  • Journey
  • Exercise

• In the make-up trailer there are always lots of trashy magazines and it's always quite pleasant to go through them in the morning. That's when I realized, "Oh my, it's quite nasty". There was a lot of pressure on Daniel Craig. He was quite nervous and paranoid, especially in the Bahamas on the beach, lots of paparazzi. Even on me in France - nasty things! Like I was going to get fired, I was so bad.

  

  Eva Green
  • Makeup
  • Pressure
  • Magazines

• Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate Jews? Or am I just being paranoid?

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Hate
  • Jew
  • Code

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