Nominations Quotes - Page 2

• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

  Edmund Burke

  Jobs, Exercise, Office

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1453, Delphi Classics

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• I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.

  Kyle Chandler

  Upset, Emmys

  "'Friday Night Lights' Emmy nominees Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton reflect on first impressions, lasting friendship, and saying goodbye". Interview with Michael Ausiello, ew.com. August 5, 2010.

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• 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

  Writing, Two, Categories

  "Write On" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.

  Herman Cain

  Running, Simple, Views

  "Herman Cain denies GOP's horrible history with blacks" by Roland Martin, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.

  James Dobson

  Believe, Choices, President

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• 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

  Ron Fournier

  Zero, Dark, Three

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• I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Cities, Awards

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• In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his campaign itself just caused lots of consternation and nervousness and anger. Famously, piñata makers started making piñatas of Donald Trump, even before he won the Republican nomination. There was this sense that, here's a person who's rising in the polls because he's insulting us, because he's created this scapegoated image of us as the people responsible for the decline of the United States.

  Hector Tobar

  Long, People, Community

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Awards, Curiosity, Important

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• Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

  Christine Pelosi

  Oil, Presidential, Shelter

  "Ryan Roadmap STILL a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2012.

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• Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

  Mitt Romney

  Humility, Responsibility, America

  "Election Guide: Romney Rhetoric". Interview with Jason Williams, www.cityweekly.net. October 31, 2012.

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• When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mistake, Party, Winning

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• I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

  Albert Einstein

  Hero, Letters, Kind

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• I had no expectation about getting a nomination, but I was watching nonetheless. My wife and my son got really excited. I was sort of surprised — I was like, 'Oh, wow.' And I couldn't hear the latter part of my name.

  Tobey Maguire

  Son, Names, Expectations

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• I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, America, People

  "African-American and Female in One Candidate". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2008.

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