“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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Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f… 1940–1973

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