“When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

—  Bruce Lee

Radio interview with Ted Thomas (1972) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la_D3oF5H_A

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