Quotes About Cosmopolitan

Those small things, like giving a hug to man, I try to avoid it. Because I can see the situation is coming, and I try to prepare. But I remember the first time I did it, I was 16, and I was at the gymnasium, and it was a cosmopolitan thing, an international thing, a modern thing, but I never felt at ease with it at all.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal.

The world is becoming smaller every day.

I'm not a New York snob.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

globalism (for better or worse) transforms personal and ethnic identities, creating hyphenated and cosmopolitan identities—in which people consider themselves first and foremost citizens of the earth and members of the earth's ecosystem more than as citizens of a nation or members of a religion. This identity disruption creates fissures and fractures among existing elites who are still managing parochial national, cultural, ethnic, or religious systems.11

Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. His interests and allegiances were broad. "The world is my country," he said, "science my religion.

I'm not someone who jumps in a car to make for the country, I'm an urbanite. I love living in London and there's always something going on.

When I came to Bombay, as it was called in my time, it was filled with people from everywhere, Kashmir to Kerala.

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

I think, probably, socially, in some ways New York may be the least American city. It represents too many things that Americans really don't entirely want in their lives.

Polly's no company for him, really, you can see that, and in many ways she seems dreadfully on his nerves. She's so insular, you know, nothing is right for her, she hates the place, hates the people, even hates the climate. Boy at least is very cosmopolitan, speaks beautiful Italian, prepared to be interested in the local folk-lore and things like that, but you can't be interested quite alone and Polly is so discouraging. Everything seems rot to her and she only longs for England.

I think just growing up in Miami, there's gumbo of different cultures that influence us.

The city was hers, as, made up and sleeked so with the customary words and images (cosmopolitan, culture, cable cars) it had not been before: she had safe-passage tonight to its far blood's branchings, be they capillaries too small for more than peering into, or vessels mashed together in shameless municipal hickeys, out on the skin for all but tourists to see. Nothing of the night's could touch her; nothing did.

Había dos naciones compartiendo el mismo espacio, la pequeña nación de la afluencia y las ínfulas cosmopolitas y la gran nación de todos los demás.

Mumbai is more film based and cosmopolitan. It consists of a mixed community, but I personally feel that Delhi is more sophisticated and enjoys theatre more.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix.