We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt… To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing. – Rem Koolhaas
Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes – that’s because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does. – Yotam Ottolenghi
After 9/11, Hekmatyar helped Osama bin Laden escape from the mountains of Tora Bora into Pakistan, and then decamped to Iran, until his presence there became a bit too inconvenient. – Terry Glavin
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. – Steven Pinker
We need to encourage the presence of more Asian writers and executive producers so they can fight for normalizing the casting of Asians in traditional American roles. – Vincent Rodriguez III
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. – Tom Chatfield
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. – W. E. B. Du Bois