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1. "It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling."
Author: Allison Janney

2. "I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go."
Author: Andy Cohen

3. "I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show."
Author: Angie Martinez

4. "Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will."
Author: Artur Davis

5. "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."
Author: Ashley Benson

6. "My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went."
Author: Beau Bridges

7. "Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times."
Author: Bill Irwin

8. "'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award."
Author: Bill Murray

9. "Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic."
Author: Brenda Blethyn

10. "I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised."
Author: Bruce Beresford

11. "It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS."
Author: Bruce Davison

12. "Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers."
Author: Charles Buck

13. "Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win."
Author: Chris Kirkpatrick

14. "I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush."
Author: Daniel Inouye

15. "It is indeed a mortifying reflection to those who are actuated by the love of fame, so justly denominated the last infirmity of noble minds, that the wisest legislator and most exalted genius that ever reformed or enlightened the world can never expect such tributes of praise as are lavished on the memory of pretended saints, whose whole conduct was probably to the last degree odious or contemptible, and whose industry was entirely directed to the pursuit of objects pernicious to mankind. It is only a conqueror, a personage no less entitled to our hatred, who can pretend to the attainment of equal renown and glory."
Author: David Hume

16. "They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed."
Author: Ellen Burstyn

17. "Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep."
Author: Euripides

18. "During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster."
Author: Gail Collins

19. "It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough."
Author: Gary Burton

20. "I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise."
Author: Gloria Stuart

21. "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."
Author: Greg Egan

22. "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."
Author: Hank Azaria

23. "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."
Author: Helen Hunt

24. "I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize."
Author: Jane McGonigal

25. "For me, it's not about winning an award. It's also about not even being nominated."
Author: Jarod Kintz

26. "In high school I got voted most likely to get voted for something. Even though I was the only one who voted, it still felt terrific being nominated."
Author: Jarod Kintz

27. "Less than an hour ago, all I'd wanted was detention. Now, I was nominated for homecoming court and going to the big dance with the hottest guy in school. Somewhere out there, God was laughing at me. I was sure of it."
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

28. "A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man."
Author: John C. McGinley

29. "Miss Hunter leaned toward Stormy. "Well, as you also may know, ever since the year when Dylan Jackson was nominated for and won prom queen without his knowledge, it's been school policy to inform all nominees that they have been selected as a candidate for prom queen."
Author: John Zakour

30. "I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day."
Author: Judi Dench

31. "(...)Did she really tell Roddy Carstairs she could outshoot him with his own pistol?""No," Jason said dryly. "She told him that if he made one more improper advance to her, she would shoot him- and if she missed, she would turn Wolf loose on him. And if Wolf didn't finish the job, she had every faith I would." Jason chuckled and shook his head. "It's the first time I've been nominated for the role of hero. I was a little crushed, however, to be second choice after the dog."
Author: Judith McNaught

32. "I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me."
Author: Lady Gaga

33. "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."
Author: Mark Rydell

34. "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."
Author: Max Greenfield

35. "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."
Author: Mercedes McCambridge

36. "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."
Author: Michael Beschloss

37. "For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot."
Author: Michael Koryta

38. "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."
Author: Michael Oxley

39. "Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."
Author: Norman Jewison

40. "A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms."
Author: Nouriel Roubini

41. "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."
Author: Patrick Marber

42. "Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated."
Author: Patrick Marber

43. "He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications."
Author: Rod Parsley

44. "I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish."
Author: Sanaa Lathan

45. "It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy."
Author: Sheila E.

46. "My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway."
Author: Soulja Boy

47. "When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit."
Author: Tift Merritt

48. "I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys."
Author: Toby Keith

49. "I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve."
Author: William T. Sherman

50. "If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman

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