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Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist. -- Igor Markevitch
She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life. -- Ty Herndon
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. -- Jack L. Chalker
Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum. -- Bear Bryant
I'm good man, repin' Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the fullest. Lettin' everybody know that I got some new heat comin' to the streets. -- Lil Boosie
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. -- Don Lemon
From Bourbon Street to Baton Rouge, the freaks come out at night in Louisiana. And nowhere are they more raucous and unnerving than at Tiger Stadium. -- Pat Forde
We are going to Baton Rouge and one of the most storied stadiums in the country, a place I can truthfully say is the loudest place I've ever been. -- Mark Richt
When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington. -- Nina Easton
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. -- Elayne Boosler
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. -- Douglas Brinkley
My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half. -- Pat Forde
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. -- Ornette Coleman
The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive. -- John Kennedy Toole
It's what you'd expect out of Baton Rouge: people tailgating with shrimp Ã©touffÃ©e, everything from alligators roasting on a barbecue to dishes that you would get in the French Quarter. These people are serious and they are legit and they're ready to go. -- Erin Andrews
When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off. -- Jeffrey Tate
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. -- Helen Rowland
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. -- Paul Di Filippo
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. -- Dom DeLuise
Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. -- Tom Hiddleston
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something. -- Mo Rocca
I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation. -- Ben Carson
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. -- Johanna Siguroardottir
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. -- Xi Jinping
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Create your legacy, and pass the baton. -- Billie Jean King
Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack. -- Mikhail Tukhachevsky
I gotta take the baton from Chuck Norris. -- Charlie Sheen
Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton. -- Pablo Casals
Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife. -- Laura Schlessinger
We have a responsibility to carry the baton of faith to the next generation. -- Christine Caine
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. -- Robert Breault
Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton. -- Dean Koontz
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. -- Ambrose Bierce
God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next. -- Mary Pride
Neither team has really taken the baton by the scruff of the neck and put their stamp on it -- Nigel Worthington
No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings. -- Emily Dickinson
Running in the relay of life sometimes makes me notice that faith takes over the baton when reason finished its part. -- Hasse Jerner
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton. -- Herman Melville
Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton. -- Stacy Bierlein
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Legacy: Supreme leaders determine where generations are going and develop outstanding leaders they pass the baton to. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen]. -- Ewan McGregor
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony. -- Peter Kreeft
The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called. -- James Fallows
The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back. -- Ally Carter
It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley. -- Rachel Dolezal

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