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If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

Jet Li

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
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Artist Day Sun Wait
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
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Amazing Himself Martial Art Mental Movement Movie Philosophy Strong
I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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Children Education Martial Art Myself Sports
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.
JET LI

Marketing Martial Art Myself Time
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
JET LI

Children Culture Education Myself Wife
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
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Different Love Martial Art Talk Yourself
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Audience Country Culture People
A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Bad Goodness Person Weapon
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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Act Forget Friendship Movie
I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.
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Happiness Kind Martial Art Movie Myself People Talk
But recently I’ve, the past few years, I’m more focused on meditation. It’s not a physical part. It’s more mental part, to understand life.
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Focus Life Meditation Mental Understand
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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Children Examination Hope Important Myself Parents
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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Inspirational Life Understand
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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Art Attack Movement Physical
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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Age Martial Art Myself
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Independent Problem Solve Yourself
My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
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Family Happiness Home Myself Wife Worker
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Need Perfection Self Love Slow Yourself
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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Brain Group Head Person
I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
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Action Brave Face Feeling Myself Scene
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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Enlightenment Level Life Myself Study Talk Truth
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.
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Food Future Meet Myself Past President
Learn the way and find your own way.
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Learning Way Yourself
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Battle Fight Love Powerful
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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Art Enemy Evidence Martial Struggle Yourself

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