“But don't panic. Base eight is just like base ten really — if you're missing two fingers.”
"New Math"
That Was the Year That Was (1965)
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Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973); In a training session with one of the temple students.
Variant: Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

The Rush Limbaugh Show, , quoted in " Rush Limbaugh: Coronavirus is like the common cold, and “all of this panic is just not warranted” https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-coronavirus-common-cold-and-all-panic-just-not-warranted", Media Matters (
2020s

“I just told him to run the bases and don't try to be cocky.”
2004
“You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!”
Source: On the Prowl

Like, "Why didn't I research this before?"
Interview in the documentary-film The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos (2018).

“I say: be fair. Be objective. Don't just come to conclusions based on one-sided "evidence."”
Interview with Hindustan Times http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/interviewsnews/full-text-of-ht-s-exclusive-interview-with-lankan-president-rajapaksa/article1-1123091.aspx, September 17, 2013.

Said to Honey magazine, as claimed in Aaliyah: More Than a Woman, p. 178.
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