Nominations Quotes

• The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

  Jeff Bridges

  Oscars

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• I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

  David O. Russell

  Hard Work, Mean, Boys

  "The fighter: David O. Russell Interview". Interview with Tom Butler, www.ign.com. February 8, 2011.

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• I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

  Frankie Muniz

  Today, Golden, Tradition

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Winning, Would Be, Gravy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Awards, People

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• I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, Presidential, Accepting

  Broadcast address to the nation, 31 Mar. 1968

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• 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

  Winning, Perspective, Given

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• For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.

  Jean-Marie Lustiger

  Stars, Yellow, Speech

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• My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Ambition, Governors

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.21

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• Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

  Dick Morris

  Ideas, Mind, Ambitious

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• The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

  Carol Kane

  Names, People, Actors

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• I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

  William H. Macy

  Jobs, Agents, Want

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• Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that

  Lee Ann Womack

  Years, Comes And Goes, Wells

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• So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

  Michael Beschloss

  Hard Times, People, Conventions

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• Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Years, Issues, Oscars

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Country, New York, Party

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• If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

  David Allan Coe

  Class, Would Be, Poet

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• I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, Awards, Done

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• Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Heart, Oscars, Possibility

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Winning, Feelings, Golden

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• What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, People, President

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• "Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good.

  David Bianculli

  Drama, Years, Next Year

  "In 'Transparent,' A 70-Year-Old Divorced Dad Comes Out As A Woman". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. September 26, 2014.

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• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  Ralph Neas

  People, Justice, President

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• We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.

  Jay Sekulow

  Texas, Justice, Trying

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• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  Patrick Leahy

  People, Needs, Lifetime

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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