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bruce lee

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1. Lee, Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kamnoun

   United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)

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1. Bruce Lee

   Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍; born Lee Jun-fan, 李振藩; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, director, and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MMA). Lee is considered by critics, media, and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of all time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who bridged the gap between East and West. He is credited with promoting Hong Kong action cinema and helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films.Born in San Francisco and raised in British Hong Kong, Lee was introduced to the Hong Kong film industry as a child actor by his father. However, these were not martial arts films. His early martial arts experience included Wing Chun (trained under Yip Man), tai chi, boxing (winning a Hong Kong boxing tournament), and apparently frequent street fighting (neighbourhood and rooftop fights). In 1959, Lee, having U.S. citizenship due to his birth, was able to move to Seattle. In 1961, he enrolled in the University of Washington. It was during this time in the United States that he began considering making money by teaching martial arts, even though he aspired to have a career in acting. He opened his first martial arts school, operated out of home in Seattle. After later adding a second school in Oakland, California, he once drew significant attention at the 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships of California by making demonstrations and speaking. He subsequently moved to Los Angeles to teach, where his students included Chuck Norris, Sharon Tate, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In the 1970s, his Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the Hong Kong martial arts films to a new level of popularity and acclaim, sparking a surge of Western interest in Chinese martial arts. The direction and tone of his films dramatically influenced and changed martial arts and martial arts films worldwide.He is noted for his roles in five feature-length Hong Kong martial arts films in the early 1970s: Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Golden Harvest's The Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Lee; and Golden Harvest and Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973) and The Game of Death (1978), both directed by Robert Clouse. Lee became an iconic figure known throughout the world, particularly among the Chinese, based upon his portrayal of Chinese nationalism in his films, and among Asian Americans for defying Asian stereotypes. Having initially learnt Wing Chun, tai chi, boxing, and street fighting, he combined them with other influences from various sources into the spirit of his personal martial arts philosophy, which he dubbed Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Intercepting Fist).Lee died on July 20, 1973, at age 32. Since his death, Lee has continued to be a prominent influence on modern combat sports, including judo, karate, mixed martial arts, and boxing, as well as modern popular culture, including film, television, comics, animation, and video games. Time named Lee one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.

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1. bruce lee

   Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong-American actor, director, martial artist, and philosopher who is considered one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century. He is most renowned for his roles in classic martial arts films like "Enter the Dragon" and "Fists of Fury". Lee specialized in a form of martial arts he developed himself, called Jeet Kune Do, which emphasized practicality, flexibility, speed, and efficiency. He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films. He died prematurely at the age of 32 in 1973.

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1. Bruce Lee

   Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, martial artist, Hong Kong action film actor, martial arts instructor, and filmmaker. The founder of Jeet Kune Do, Lee was the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen. He is widely considered by commentators, critics, media and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films. Lee was born in Chinatown, San Francisco on 27 November 1940 to parents from Hong Kong and was raised in Kowloon with his family until his late teens. He was introduced to the film industry by his father and appeared in several films as a child actor. Lee moved to the United States at the age of 18 to receive his higher education, and it was during this time that he began teaching martial arts. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim, sparking a surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West in the 1970s. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced martial arts and martial arts films in Hong Kong and the rest of the world.

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   The numerical value of bruce lee in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of bruce lee in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bruce lee in a Sentence

1. Kevin Orcutt:

   The nunchaku is a martial arts device or weapon that Bruce Lee demonstrated in many movies. That's not what I'm teaching here. The impact techniques are extremely simple, as in any baton user would be able to master those techniques, and they don't take long to teach, the remainder of the training is for the control applications, which the martial arts experts don't teach because they're not putting people in handcuffs.

2. Quentin Tarantino:

   Could Cliff Booth beat up Bruce Lee ? Brad Pitt would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff Booth maybe could, if you ask me the question,' Well, who would win in a fight : Bruce Lee or Dracula ?' It's the same question. It's a fictional character. If I say Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up, Cliff Booth's a fictional character, then Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up.

3. Quentin Tarantino:

   Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy, i didn't just make a lot of that up. I heard Bruce Lee say things like that, to that effect. People are saying,' Well, Bruce Lee never said Bruce Lee could beat up Muhammad Ali.' Uh, yeah, Bruce Lee did. Not only did Bruce Lee say that, Bruce Lee wife, Linda Lee, said that. In the first biography I ever read was Linda Lee's' Bruce Lee : The Man Only I Knew,' and Linda Lee absolutely said it.

4. Victor Cui:

   Everyone watching from across the world wants to know the answer to the question -- who is the next Bruce Lee ? it has been 40 years since he passed and everybody still knows his name. We've got people from all across the world watching One Championship looking for the next big star.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
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