Ethan Harris quote: "We don't change our personal consumption forecasts around [the Michigan sentiment index]. But it's a good sign -- I think the consumer will trudge along here, even if they are saddled with high debts."

The U.S. pointing to China is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. The deficit with China re...
ETHAN HARRIS

Payrolls were well below the whisper number, so there's been a big sigh of relief in the market,
ETHAN HARRIS

This large inflow is an important prop for the Treasury market, helping keep yields in their current...
ETHAN HARRIS

In the big oil shocks that really damaged the economy, the tax on the consumer was many times more t...
ETHAN HARRIS

The consumer is already somewhat vulnerable in the year ahead as the tax-cut effects fade. If we con...
ETHAN HARRIS

Fed officials ... likely anticipated some fallout in fixed income markets, ... We believe ... that F...
ETHAN HARRIS

I think what people will see is that commentary from Fed officials will sound almost identical to th...
ETHAN HARRIS

We've been trying to see whether the improvement of the economy and financial market will carry the ...
ETHAN HARRIS

Real estate is a topic that has vaulted to center stage, ... The real reason the topic is hot and be...
ETHAN HARRIS

There's definitely going to be nervousness around the event and a kind of inertia. My wife has alrea...
ETHAN HARRIS

This is another of these little hints that we won't get a strong employment number on Friday.
ETHAN HARRIS

Net net, we think the risks are tilted toward a surprisingly strong gain in [Friday's] report,
ETHAN HARRIS

We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity i...
ETHAN HARRIS

The retail sales report is a little bit misleading,
ETHAN HARRIS

Now the tough decisions arrive.
ETHAN HARRIS

Our feeling is that because you have a new central banker, they are going to want to err on the side...
ETHAN HARRIS

We think the ISM services number is one of the worst monthly pieces of data there are. On a month-to...
ETHAN HARRIS

While the Fed is more than one person, Mr. Greenspan's retirement means less confidence in the Fed, ...
ETHAN HARRIS

Now you are entering a much more uncertain period.
ETHAN HARRIS

We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity i...
ETHAN HARRIS

With few signs that consumer prices are about to break to the upside ... along with signs that aggre...
ETHAN HARRIS

One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines...
ETHAN CANIN

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intell...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.
ETHAN EMBRY

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages ...
ETHAN HAWKE

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood release...
ETHAN COEN

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affir...
ETHAN CANIN

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a mov...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only wit...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even ...
ETHAN CANIN

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan wh...
ETHAN CANIN

I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.
ETHAN SUPLEE

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is p...
ETHAN CANIN

Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone els...
ETHAN HAWKE

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. B...
ETHAN HAWKE

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
ETHAN COEN

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or wi...
ETHAN ALLEN

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, th...
ETHAN CANIN

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and anoth...
ETHAN CANIN

I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's...
ETHAN CANIN

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very sm...
ETHAN HAWKE

When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history o...
ETHAN ALLEN

In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for...
ETHAN CANIN

Go for the hum.
ETHAN MORDDEN

I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be ...
ETHAN HAWKE

It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
ETHAN CANIN

While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the la...
ETHAN ALLEN

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or wi...
ETHAN ALLEN

"Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physicia...
ETHAN ALLEN

Street Sweep .
ETHAN ALLEN

Today we are reaching from younger people to? baby boomers and up.
ETHAN ALLEN

There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mis...
ETHAN ALLEN

"Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physici...
ETHAN ALLEN

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in t...
ETHAN ALLEN

We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ....
ETHAN ALLEN

and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem.
ETHAN ALBRIGHT

You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so youn...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT

The bottom line on this job is easy, ... If I do it right this Sunday, they'll let me come back and ...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT

Seems like it's something different every time, ... Denver had tall guys getting right in the gap. T...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT

I was the running joke in Miami, they were cutting me and recalling me so many times. I had six or s...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT

I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. So my coac...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT

My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he told me ...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT

In 12 years of playing, I've never been on a team that won a playoff game. That was awesome. They we...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in t...
ETHAN ALLEN

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.
ETHAN EMBRY

He enlisted and went on to fight in World War II and fight for civil rights at home, when he got bac...
ETHAN HAWKE

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.
ETHAN HAWKE

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any mo...
ETHAN HAWKE

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past,
ETHAN HAWKE

My grandfather was a great example of his generation,
ETHAN HAWKE

There are a great many people that see independent film as a stepping stone to some kind of grand id...
ETHAN HAWKE

I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' a...
ETHAN CANIN

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

This is a classic case of short-term hysteria and mania. Who knows how much longer this can go up bu...
ETHAN MCAFEE

Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
ETHAN CANIN

That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is pu...
ETHAN COEN

I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence h...
ETHAN COEN

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I d...
ETHAN HAWKE

Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. ...
ETHAN COEN

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous r...
ETHAN COEN

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a l...
ETHAN SUPLEE

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabular...
ETHAN CANIN

I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now...
ETHAN CANIN

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and rea...
ETHAN HAWKE

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I m...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
ETHAN EMBRY

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.
ETHAN HAWKE

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know,...
ETHAN CANIN

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...
ETHAN ALLEN

Cisco has sort of straddled the fence with working with Microsoft. This is another approach that mov...
ETHAN SIMMONS

The Gore campaign has got to be worried.
ETHAN SIEGAL

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly th...
ETHAN HAWKE

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

When I went for my medical school interview, I had an old paperback of 'Henderson the Rain King&...
ETHAN CANIN

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.
ETHAN CANIN

I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to h...
ETHAN PECK

It's a natural add-on to services that we're already providing. Video is just another application yo...
ETHAN SIMMONS

I was the first one in my group to get married. Now I've split up, they're all married. They're like...
ETHAN HAWKE

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic ...
ETHAN HAWKE

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place ...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a ...
ETHAN CANIN

We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then ...
ETHAN COEN

I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.
ETHAN ZOHN

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
ETHAN EMBRY

My dad's more of a pusher. (Mark) is more individual.
ETHAN DICKSON

The fact of just being there was phenomenal.
ETHAN RUSSELL

Their idols were not pop stars but blues singers. Those idols were old already. So why would they no...
ETHAN RUSSELL

He may prove to be totally innocent, but this is a negative -- a big distraction -- for his presiden...
ETHAN SIEGAL

You may not be able to change the world, but you can always change somones world.
ETHAN GARV**

I'm really into whatever comes my way, really, and never plan what I want to do, but I'll always tak...
ETHAN EMBRY

I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the f...
ETHAN CANIN

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not w...
ETHAN CANIN

Learning from your heroes increases your information retention. And these soccer players in Africa a...
ETHAN ZOHN

It opened people's eyes to what's happening in a place that people forget about and tend to brush of...
ETHAN ZOHN

It'll be the largest collection of reality winners in one place ever, I can promise you that.
ETHAN ZOHN

I hope that when you leave here today you will have the knowledge of who you are and the challenges ...
ETHAN ZOHN

I wake up in a different state every day, but that's important to me.
ETHAN ZOHN

I'm still involved with the Vassar community and it's important to me to stay involved.
ETHAN ZOHN

I knew I only had 15 minutes of fame, so I wanted to be sure I did something good with it,
ETHAN ZOHN

I think that his performance on that song is a real tribute to Bonham.
ETHAN IVERSON

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a ...
ETHAN EMBRY

We knew when we started this band that a lot of our appeal was going to be in the teen market. We kn...
ETHAN MENTZER

It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought alon...
ETHAN ZOHN

It was hard to comprehend. We weren't expecting make it to the final. After it was over, we were sho...
ETHAN DICKSON

I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal ...
ETHAN CANIN

Private polls have shown that his endorsement has actually moved votes.
ETHAN GETO

We took two steps forward with the reforms in December, and one more step yesterday. But we still ha...
ETHAN NADELMANN

The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.
ETHAN EMBRY

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they...
ETHAN HAWKE

If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music o...
ETHAN CANIN

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while o...
ETHAN PECK

In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even b...
ETHAN COEN

A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.
ETHAN CANIN

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head abou...
ETHAN EMBRY

I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching &...
ETHAN HAWKE

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to shar...
ETHAN HAWKE

When there's so much freedom - financially and otherwise - smart kids get themselves into troubl...
ETHAN PECK

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and ...
ETHAN HAWKE

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it an...
ETHAN HAWKE

Happy isn't even a real idea," he said. "It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't ...
ETHAN CANIN

I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone w...
ETHAN CANIN

Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quali...
ETHAN CANIN

I didn't even know that malls even had shows.
ETHAN MENTZER

Doubt is the enemy of mania. It's trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like wri...
ETHAN CANIN

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place...
ETHAN CANIN

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire ...
ETHAN HAWKE

I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people...
ETHAN HAWKE

Soccer is my life.
ETHAN ZOHN

It can be a bit overwhelming, but it's a great overview of the conversations taking place in and aro...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within th...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

Because no appointments need to be made until the end of this semester, not having a database now do...
ETHAN UCKER

The point of an election is to evaluate someone's performance my performance as appointments chai...
ETHAN UCKER

Fortunately, the system I had set up allowed room for this lag. But all that has now been worked out...
ETHAN UCKER

Appointments chair is a position with an unreasonably disproportionate amount of power.
ETHAN UCKER

When [the special election] happened and I had to make the choice to run again, I realized that I di...
ETHAN UCKER

The problem, as I see it, [is that] I was unfortunately not committed enough to Student Council at t...
ETHAN UCKER

We saw products in use that were pretty impressive. There was a lot of new stuff on the presence-man...
ETHAN SIMMONS

If the Fed continues to raise interest rates, it puts a damper on the spirits of voters and consumer...
ETHAN SIEGAL

To be elected president, Al Gore needs the economy and the markets firing on all cylinders. Al Gore ...
ETHAN SIEGAL

If there is one you had to single out, it would be Lennon.
ETHAN RUSSELL

What I think I do well, ... is capture real moments with extraordinary people.
ETHAN RUSSELL

He is beloved for his integrity as an artist. I think that matters.
ETHAN RUSSELL

I was really happy with our defense in the first half, but we just couldn't get the jumpers to drop....
ETHAN ROE

During that stretch, we just went to a motion offense. We stopped calling plays, and we just let the...
ETHAN ROE

If you expect to go somewhere, then you should be able to beat anybody. Sometimes, you get a better ...
ETHAN ROE

Their defense was great. They gave us one shot and we were done. We were not patient enough.
ETHAN ROE

It's a good step in our confidence. We really had poise the past two nights. When things started to ...
ETHAN ROE

If there's one thing the international community should do, if only out of deference because he won ...
ETHAN NADELMANN

The entire war on drugs disproportionately targets poor people and people of color.
ETHAN NADELMANN

The best news in this year's report is the significant decline in cigarette smoking, not just becaus...
ETHAN NADELMANN

What happened in California provides a powerful model. It is extremely likely that there will be oth...
ETHAN NADELMANN

This place has something special.
ETHAN MULLER

It is a real ski experience, it is a real ski town.
ETHAN MULLER

I have been to a lot of ski town across the U.S. And this place truly is unique.
ETHAN MULLER

I'm probably looking to be back in back in Edmonton.
ETHAN MOREAU

We're going to do some damage.
ETHAN MOREAU

It's ridiculous. There's no excuse for it.
ETHAN MOREAU

We're very aware of the situation. We need to jump on teams who are tired from playing the night bef...
ETHAN MOREAU

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a n...
ETHAN MOREAU

The responsibility falls on the player. I am going to have to get a lot better next game.
ETHAN MOREAU

It feels the same way as the last game. I thought I was effective in that last game.
ETHAN MOREAU

The guys who know him know we're getting a good friend back, but we're also getting a guy who can he...
ETHAN MOREAU

We're excited. We know what he's done here in the past. He's a guy who is underrated. He's a true pr...
ETHAN MOREAU

We have 33 games left, so if we want to do it, we're going to do it. We can climb back to the top. I...
ETHAN MOREAU

We were really driven to do something and hopefully become really successful with it. We set a lot o...
ETHAN MENTZER

I like songs that are so damn catchy that you wake up in the morning with them in your head.
ETHAN MENTZER

We were sort of struggling in the beginning to find the direction stylistically what exactly we want...
ETHAN MENTZER

It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.
ETHAN COEN

We're really trying hard to bring back this thing with melody and good songs and a different way of ...
ETHAN MENTZER

The suits help make us memorable and identifiable,
ETHAN MENTZER

With this, it was, yes, we were excited about it but it was something new that we hadn't done before...
ETHAN MENTZER

We don't change our personal consumption forecasts around [the Michigan sentiment index]. But it's a good sign -- I think the consumer will trudge along here, even if they are saddled with high debts.

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We don't change our personal consumption forecasts around [the Michigan sentiment index]. But it's a good sign -- I think the consumer will trudge along here, even if they are saddled with high debts.

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