El Confidencial: Bruce Lee, actor: "Esperar que la vida te trate bien por ser buena persona es como esperar que un tigre o un león no te ataquen por ser vegetariano"
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Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought. With a career spanning Hong Kong and the United States, Lee is regarded as the…
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Born 27 November 1940 · Died 20 July 1973 · Q16397
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2026· 10 entries
Clarin.com: Bruce Lee: “Esperar que la vida te trate bien por ser buena persona es como esperar que un tigre o un león no te ataquen por ser vegetariano”
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Radio Mitre: Bruce Lee, artista marcial: “Esperar que la vida te trate bien por ser buena persona es como esperar que un tigre o un león no te ataquen por ser vegetariano”
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“He did write poetry; he was really the consummate artist.”
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Bruce Lee: ‘Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own,’ life lesson by 'Enter The ...
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Revista Merca2.0: Quote of the day by Bruce Lee: “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
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University of North Dakota (UND): Bruce Lee retirement ceremony is Aug. 28
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Bruce Lee: “Adapt what is useful, reject what is… – Inspiring lessons ...
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People: Bruce Lee Died Unexpectedly at the Height of His Career. Here’s What to Know About His Final Days
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Hypebeast: Bruce Lee x LỰU ĐẠN Is a Tribute to the "Little Dragon"
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: USPS to commemorate Bruce Lee in 2026. Here's what the stamp looks like
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The Guardian: Bruce Lee statue in San Francisco to honor ‘a story for all Americans’
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2024· 5 entries
collider: The Wild, Weird World of Bruce Lee Exploitation Movies
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The Daily Beast: The Wild True Story of the Bruce Lee Statue Heist
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Yahoo: Bruce Lee: The Legend Streaming: Watch & Stream via HBO Max
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The Guardian: Life without Bruce and Brandon: Shannon Lee on losing her superstar father and brother
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There was a proposal to erect a statue of Bruce Lee in San Francisco
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2023· 10 entries
Collider: Bruce Lee Biopic Could Film Soon After the Strikes End, Says Producer
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Major League Baseball: Bruce Lee Night
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The Guardian: ‘They should be called Bruce-’em-ups’ – how Bruce Lee shaped fighting games
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The Guardian: Enter the Dragon review – Bruce Lee classic still delivers a lethal blow
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CBS News: Honoring Bruce Lee
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The Guardian: Unseen ‘log fight’ footage from Bruce Lee film Game of Death to be released
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The Guardian: Tom Cruise, anti-imperialism and zero body-fat: Bruce Lee’s legacy 50 years after his death
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News Mobile rated the claim “Bruce Lee Playing Table Tennis Using 'Nunchucks'” False.
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NewsMobile rated the claim “Bruce Lee Playing Table Tennis Using 'Nunchucks'” False.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Video shows Bruce Lee playing 2v1 table tennis with nunchakus.” False.
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: Ang Lee casts son Mason to play Bruce Lee in biopic
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Snopes rated the claim “Martial arts and film icon Bruce Lee died from drinking too much water.” Unproven.
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Snopes rated the claim “Bruce Lee once said: "Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays."” Unproven.
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Bruce Lee was an American citizen, as he was born in San Francisco, California.” True.
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The Guardian: Bruce Lee was the unlikely hero of 70s Noongar kids. Now he's helping us share our language | Barry McGuire
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Will the Kung Fu remake right the wrongs suffered by Bruce Lee?
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2019· 10 entries
Alt News rated the claim “Video of Bruce Lee playing ping pong with a Nunchaku” False.
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The Quint rated the claim “Archival footage of Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks” FALSE.
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India Today rated the claim “Rare clip of Bruce Lee playing ping-pong with Nunchaku” Mostly false.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Bruce Lee playing table tennis with nunchucks.” FALSE.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Late actor and martial artist Bruce Lee playing table tennis with a set of nunchucks?” False.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Bruce Lee or Warren Buffett gave quote about suffering” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Bruce Lee said, "You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass."” False.
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The Guardian: Bruce Lee's daughter on resurrecting his lost TV epic: 'We righted the wrong'
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The Guardian: Bruce Lee's daughter hits out at father's portrayal in Tarantino film
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Africa Check rated the claim “You may be cool, but you’ll never be Bruce Lee, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix all hangin’ at the same freakin’ party” False.
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2018· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph captures a selfie Jimi Hendrix took with Jim Morrison and Bruce Lee.” False.
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The Guardian: Raymond Chow, Hong Kong producer who found Bruce Lee, dies
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Yu's grandson, Pang Chi-ping, said: "We will convert the mansion into a centre for Chinese studies next year, which provides courses like Mandarin and Chinese music for children
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In the 2018 biography Bruce Lee: A Life, Matthew Polly identifies Lee's maternal grandfather as Ho Kom-tong, who had often been reported as his adoptive grandfather.
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2017· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Elvis Presley posing with Bruce Lee.” False.
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2015).
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Perfect Storm Entertainment and Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, announced that the series The Warrior would be produced and would air on Cinemax
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Небо это не космос”.
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2013· 1 entry
Won: Statue of Bruce Lee (Los Angeles) (2013).
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2010· 2 entries
Lee's relative Eric Peter Ho, in his 2010 book Tracing My Children's Lineage, suggests that Grace was born in Shanghai to a Eurasian woman named Cheung King-sin.
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Producer Paul Maslansky was reported to have planned and received funding for a film based on the original script for The Silent Flute
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2009· 1 entry
It was announced that Lee's Hong Kong home (41 Cumberland Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong) would be preserved and transformed into a tourist site by Yu Pang-lin
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2008· 1 entry
With staged "documentary-looking" footage of Bruce Lee playing ping-pong with his nunchaku and also igniting matches as they are thrown toward him
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2005· 2 entries
On what would have been his 65th birthday
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Won: Statue of Bruce Lee (Hong Kong) (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) founder Dana White called Lee the "father of mixed martial arts" and stated: "If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the
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2001· 2 entries
“For A Moment", Bruce Lee's hand-written poem, from Bruce Lee Papers — as quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (2001) edited by John Little, p. 100”
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She retired in 2001 from the family estate.
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2000· 2 entries
“(ang. Striking Thoughts. Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living, wyd. Turtle Publishing, USA 2000)”
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“Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000); here, Lee was reciting lines he wrote for his short lived role on the TV series Longstreet.”
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1995· 1 entry
Concluding that "the action is as fast and furious as anything in Lee's films
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1994· 1 entry
Bruce Thomas, in his 1994 biography Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit, suggests that Grace had a Chinese mother and a German father.
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1993· 2 entries
In 1993, at the age of 28, Brandon Lee died after being accidentally shot by a prop gun on the set of The Crow.
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At the age of 28, Brandon Lee died after being accidentally shot by a prop gun on the set of The Crow
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1989· 3 entries
Linda Lee, in her 1989 biography The Bruce Lee Story, suggests that Grace had a German father and was a Catholic.
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In 1989, she wrote the book The Bruce Lee Story.
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Wrote the book The Bruce Lee Story
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1986· 1 entry
As a young adult, Brandon Lee found some success acting in action-oriented pictures such as Legacy of Rage (1986), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), and Rapid Fire (1992).
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1975· 2 entries
She wrote the 1975 book Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, on which the 1993 feature film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was based.
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“(wyd. Ohara Publications Incorporated, USA 1975)”
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1973· 37 entries
Included Taky Kimura, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Dan Inosanto, Peter Chin, and Lee's brother Robert
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Lee was in Hong Kong planning to have dinner with actor George Lazenby, with whom he intended to make a film
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Died 1973-07-20.
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Lee collapsed during an automated dialogue replacement session for Enter the Dragon at Orange Sky Golden Harvest Film Studio in Hong Kong
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“Quando si raggiunge la maturità in quest'arte, si avrà una forma senza forma. È come il ghiaccio che si dissolve nell'acqua. Quando non si ha una forma, si può avere qualsiasi forma; quando non si ha uno stile, si può avere qualsiasi stile.”
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The equivalent of $4 million adjusted for inflation as of 2007
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Linda continued to promote Bruce Lee's martial art Jeet Kune Do
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“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
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“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
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“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him.”
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“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
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“Aby wygenerować wielką moc, najpierw trzeba być całkowicie rozluźnionym i zebrać siły, aby nagle skoncentrować cały umysł i całą siłę na uderzeniu w cel.”
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“Nie ograniczaj się do jednej formy, przystosuj ją i buduj na niej coś własnego, pozwól temu wzrastać i bądź jak woda. Opróżnij umysł, bądź bezforemny, bezkształtny – jak woda. Wlewasz teraz wodę do filiżanki, staje się filiżanką; wlewasz do butelki, jest butelką; wlejesz ją do czajniczka, staje się czajniczkiem. Woda może płynąć swobodnie lub niszczyć. Bądź jak woda, mój przyjacielu.”
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“Sama technika jest niczym, jeżeli nie jest podparta siłą i gibkością.”
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“As "Mr. Lee" in Enter the Dragon (1973); Bruce Lee's character said this to Robert Wall's character "O'Hara", after the latter had broken a board in the air with his fist in an act of attempted intimidation.”
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“Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973); In a conversation with an older member of the temple.”
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“Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973); In a training session with one of the temple students.”
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“p. 25; Variant: Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose — to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!”
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“Le cinture servono per tener su i pantaloni!”
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“[Recitando alcune righe che aveva scritto per il suo breve ruolo nella serie TV Longstreet] Se cerchi di ricordare tutto, perderai. Svuota la tua mente. Sii senza limiti, senza forma, come l'acqua. Se metti l'acqua in una tazza, lei diventa una tazza. Se la metti in una teiera, diventa la teiera. L'acqua può fluire, spargersi, sgocciolare o spezzare. Sii acqua, amico mio.”
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“Aby wyrazić siebie swobodnie, musisz umrzeć dla wszystkiego, co było. „Stare” daje ci stabilizację, a „nowe” płynność.”
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“Droga do przekroczenia karmy leży we właściwym użyciu umysłu i woli. Jedność wszelkiego życia jest prawdą, która może być właściwie zrealizowana, tylko kiedy fałszywe pojęcia oddzielnej jaźni, której los może być rozpatrywany oddzielnie od całości, są na zawsze usunięte.”
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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.”
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“Gdzie istnieje wolność od mechanicznego warunkowania, tam jest prostota. Życie to relacja z całością.”
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“When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.”
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“Jeet Kune Do jest oświeceniem. To droga życia, ruch w kierunku siły woli i kontroli, chociaż musi być uzyskane poprzez intuicję.”
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“When I look around I always learn something, and that is to be yourself always, express yourself, and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate him. Now that seems to be the prevalent thing happening in Hong Kong, like they always copy mannerism, but they never start from the root of his being and that is, how can I be me?”
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“Jeet Kune Do uczy nas nie oglądać się wstecz, gdy raz cel zostanie określony. Ono traktuje życie i śmierć bezstronnie.”
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“Jeet Kune Do unika sztuczności, przenika złożoność, dociera do sedna problemu i precyzuje kluczowe czynniki.”
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“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.”
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“Conoscere sé stessi è studiarsi mentre si agisce con l'altro. (p. 20)”
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Upon's Lee passing in 1973, Linda continued to promote Bruce Lee's martial art Jeet Kune Do.
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Linda continued to promote his martial art, Jeet Kune Do
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“Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.”
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“All types of knowledge, ultimately self knowledge.”
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“A good martial artist does not become tense but ready.”
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“Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing.”
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1972· 3 entries
“Radio interview with Ted Thomas (1972)”
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After the success of The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, a third film was planned by Raymond Chow at Golden Harvest to be directed by Lo Wei, titled Yellow-Faced Tiger
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About his religious affiliation, he replied, "None whatsoever"
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1971· 6 entries
Tentatively titled The Warrior, discussions of which were confirmed by Warner Bros
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Lee appeared in four episodes of the television series Longstreet, written by Silliphant
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Landed his first leading role in The Big Boss (1971), directed by Lo Wei
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“Bruce Lee interview on the Pierre Berton Show (1971)”
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“Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)”
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“to be in a modernized type of a thing and that they think the Western idea is out, whereas I want to do the Western”
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1970· 1 entry
Lee was responsible for producing the fight choreography of A Walk in the Spring Rain, starring Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, again written by Silliphant
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1969· 3 entries
Lee made a brief appearance in the Silliphant-penned film Marlowe, where he played a hoodlum hired to intimidate private detective Philip Marlowe, played by James Garner, who uses his martial arts abilities to commit act
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The three worked on a script for a film titled The Silent Flute, and they went together on a location-hunt to India
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As stated also by Lee's biographer Matthew Polly
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1967· 1 entry
Lee wrote to Dozier thanking him for starting "my career in show business"
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1965· 2 entries
Lee changed his approach toward martial arts training
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Lee had two children with Linda: Brandon (1965–1993) and Shannon Lee (born 1969).
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1964· 5 entries
And 1968, with the latter having higher-quality video footage available
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Studied at University of Washington (1961–1964).
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Lee had a controversial private match with Wong Jack-man
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At a demonstration in Long Beach, California, Lee met karate champion Chuck Norris
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Eventually led to the invitation by television producer William Dozier for an audition for a role in the pilot for "Number One Son" about Lee Chan, the son of Charlie Chan
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1959· 3 entries
To continue his high school education, where he also worked for Ruby Chow as a live-in waiter at her restaurant
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Enrolling at the University of Washington in 1961
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Lee started to teach martial arts
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1958· 3 entries
While scoring knockdowns against the previous champion Gary Elms in the final
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After students from a rival Choy Li Fut martial arts school challenged Lee's Wing Chun school, he engaged in a fight on a rooftop
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Lee won the Hong Kong schools boxing tournament, knocking out the previous champion, Gary Elms, in the final
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1956· 1 entry
Due to poor academic performance (and possibly poor conduct), Lee was transferred to St
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1953· 1 entry
Lee's friend William Cheung introduced him to Ip Man
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1950· 1 entry
Which was based on a comic book character, "Kid Cheung", and was his first leading role
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-11-27.
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