Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle; you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
— Bruce Lee Modern

Martial artist, actor, philosopher

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Interview with Pierre Berton

Date / Period

1971

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMwBwFj53E

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