"When I was 5 and my sister was……" — Scott Stossel
"When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor at an airport. My mother, a germaphobe, got very upset. My sister, of course, got a stomach virus, and ever since then, I have an aversion to cheese."
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20 Quotes by Scott Stossel
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Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of…
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To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm…
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It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern…
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During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations…
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Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
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I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have,…
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To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
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Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of…
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More Airport Quotes
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads…
— Russell Baker
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To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working…
— Bill Bryson
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I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a…
— Nicolas Cage
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I get depressed at airports.
— Adam Carolla
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Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport -…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on…
— Fidel Castro
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Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful.…
— Charles Schumer
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Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
— Unknown Author
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In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for…
— Unknown Author
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I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.
— Charles M. Schulz
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They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call…
— George Carlin
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My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a…
— Dennis Miller
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