Less Than Zero Quotes

• I'm going to create tremendous jobs. And we're bringing GDP from, really, 1 percent, which is what it is now, and if Hillary Clinton got in, it will be less than zero. But we're bringing it from 1 percent up to 4 percent. And I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or 6 percent.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Zero, Thinking

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The federal investment in finding cures for cancer - $3 billion annually [as of 1999] - is less than ... zero ... point ... zero ... zero ... zero ... four ... percent of our gross domestic product, or about one-seventh of what Americans spend on beauty products.

  Michael Milken

  Zero, Cancer, Four

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• Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Zero, Thinking, Passivity Is

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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• I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Zero, Reading, Believe

  "Novelist Bret Easton Ellis". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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• Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.

  Elvis Costello

  Mother, Zero, Father

  Song: Less Than Zero, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.

  Sam de Jong

  Zero, Thinking, People

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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