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I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers. -- Nicole Kidman
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. -- Donnie Yen
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. -- Edward Gibbon
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. -- Bill Murray
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award. -- Sally Kellerman
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! -- Angela Lansbury
I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. -- Meryl Streep
At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did. -- Mercedes McCambridge
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten. -- Ashley Benson
I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable. -- Pat Morita
Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast. -- Tom Cruise
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected. -- Gene Robinson
The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. -- Suzanne Fields
In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me. -- Tim Heidecker
You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving. -- Hank Azaria
I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award. -- James McAvoy
Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R. -- Alfonso Cuaron
The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class. -- Paul Feig
In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services. -- Richard Carmona
You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame... those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I'd love to play like those guys, but there's still a long way to go and a lot of growing. -- Tom Brady
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. -- Edward Norton
I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love. -- Helen Hunt
The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.' -- Vanessa Ferlito
I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone. -- Max Greenfield
No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are. -- Ellen DeGeneres
If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. -- Robert Scheer
I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for. -- Shania Twain
I have the right credentials to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha. -- Cyrus Broacha
I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize. -- Jane McGonigal
I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' -- Todd Phillips
The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated, -- Juanita Moore
My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated. -- Eva Longoria
If nominated, I shall run to Mexico. If elected, I shall fight extradition. -- Mo Udall
I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool. -- Charles Barkley
I think anytime you get nominated for an award, its a very humbling thing. -- David Nail
I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing. -- David Nail
I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised. -- Bruce Beresford
To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney. -- Andy Borowitz
To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really. -- Randy Newman
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture. -- Leonard Maltin
Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable. -- Martha Plimpton
I hope for the best, it's great to be nominated even once in your life -- Christina Aguilera
It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough. -- Gary Burton
Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun. -- Nora Ephron
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. -- Norman Jewison
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went. -- Beau Bridges
I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day. -- Judi Dench
I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it. -- Eartha Kitt
I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box. -- Morgan Freeman
My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute. -- Toby Keith
I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention. -- Marco Rubio
In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated. -- Forest Whitaker
One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it. -- Miranda Lambert
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The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed. -- James Madison
You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special. -- Rita Moreno
If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve -- William Tecumseh Sherman
I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will. -- Denis Leary
It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling. -- Allison Janney
I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go. -- Andy Cohen
[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories? -- Charlotte Rampling
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Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. -- Bill Murray
Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. -- Brenda Blethyn
I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences. -- Carlos Ghosn
Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win. -- Chris Kirkpatrick
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish -- Sanaa Lathan
There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar. -- Juicy J
It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage. -- Juicy J
Democrats in the contrast with Republicans, almost no matter which Republican is nominated. Because they are taking such similar positions. -- Joy-Ann Reid
I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too. -- Queen Latifah
Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.' -- Megan Fox
I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for "Best Special Effects." -- Joan Rivers
I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one. -- Cameron Diaz
It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane. -- Matt Damon
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category. -- Rita Mae Brown
Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band. -- John Petrucci
Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it. -- Michael Caine
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated. -- Daniel Barber
There's been a few things that have been insane with 'Rather Be', and being nominated for a Grammy is, like, the pinnacle one. -- Jess Glynne
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. --
It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy. -- Sheila E.
The Emmys are honestly very unpredictable. I mean, have you looked at my Emmy record? I was nominated 6 times for ER and won once. -- Julianna Margulies
Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito]. -- Jon Kyl
Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I'm immensely proud of. I'm delighted. -- Martin Freeman
To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win! -- Ginuwine
I never really know when anyone is nominated for anything; I just know when people win. I don't even know how the submission process works. -- Hosea Chanchez
By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar? -- Michael Caine
Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying. -- Brad Thor
The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts. -- Michael Oxley
Today, President Barack Obama promised to 'detect and pursue' American tax evaders, as opposed to his first 100 days, in which he detected and nominated American tax evaders. -- Jay Leno
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished. -- Neil Kinnock
There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar; I would love to get nominated again. -- Juicy J
I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations. -- Peter Jackson
That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles. -- David Kirschner
It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective. -- Charles Baxter
You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy. -- Michael Beschloss
As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress. -- Michael Beschloss
In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.' -- Jennifer Lopez
I never enjoyed making videos, even though the 'Total Eclipse' video was nominated for a Grammy along with the song. We lost out to the 'Billie Jean' video. -- Bonnie Tyler
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I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills. -- Lee Daniels
The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was the law of motion. -- Richard Digance
We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums. -- Lemmy Kilmister
Ang Leeâ??s been nominated for Best Director for Life of Pi, which is what Iâ??m going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off! -- Amy Poehler
I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized. -- Mark Rydell
All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars. -- Seth Rogen
When Goldberg's 'Liberal Fascism' came out in January 2008, his employer 'National Review Online' announced that Tribune Media Services, which carries Goldberg's opinion columns, had 'nominated' Goldberg for a Pulitzer in commentary. -- Bill Dedman
There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won. -- Stephen Dobyns
It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine. -- Giancarlo Esposito
I voted for Justice Breyer and Justice Ginsburg. Not because I agreed with their ideology, but because I thought they were qualified and that elections have consequences when presidents are nominated. -- John McCain
I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before. -- Greg Egan
[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office. -- Dick Gregory
I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things. -- Patrick Marber

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