A Quote by Iain Banks

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

Iain Banks

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Am Being Paranoid

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Iain Banks
Scottish - Writer
February 16, 1954 - June 9, 2013

Every rep that you take off, somebody else gets another look. That's just how I am. It's not a matter of being paranoid, it's a matter of being confident and not taking anything for granted.

Derrick Brooks

Forget the running and the jogging. Being so paranoid about being obese is the thing that kills you.

Gok Wan

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

Brian Molko

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

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid.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

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

Molly Ivins

I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am.

Craig Stone

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

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

David Foster Wallace

I've always said I got to where I am not by being a great singer, but by being stubborn, by being tenacious, by being pigheaded.

Vicente Fernandez

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

If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.

Alexis Taylor

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

Alphonse de Lamartine

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.