- Nov 07, 2020
Baton Quotes
Passing the baton, and a place called Baton Rouge.
This page holds two separate threads: the metaphor of taking up a historic baton to continue a nation's renewal, and literal references to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, including its role after a major storm. Together they touch on both legacy and Business realities on the ground.
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.
- Mayor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, as each new actor comes to it.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020