"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."

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"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."

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"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."

Sculpture, Space

"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."

Learning,

"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."

Experience, Work, Thought

"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."

Colors, Oil

"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."

Information,

"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."

People, Decisions

"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."

Art, Artists, Historians

"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."

Work, Pleasure, Talk

"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."

Life, Experience, Time, Painting

"Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work."

Art, Work, Decision

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"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

People, Loyalty

"I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

People, End

"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

People, Children, Job

"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

People, Country, Future, Result

"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

People,

"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

People, America, Authority, Blame

"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."

Dan Abrams, American Journalist

People, Will

"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."

Dan Abrams, American Journalist

People, Day

"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."

Dan Abrams, American Journalist

People, Talking

"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."

Dan Abrams, American Journalist

People, Hope