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Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people — because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it — I don't care how good you are.

— Bruce Lee Bruce Lee interview on the Pierre Berton Show (1971)

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The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire — soon it will go out.

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Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000)

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

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