Quotes About Cosmopolitan

I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up.

London is a modern Babylon.

The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

It is this rattling I believe that affects the second point: our uneasiness with our own feelings of foreignness, our own rapidly fraying sense of belonging. To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, culture, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely? In other words, how do we decide where we belong? What convinces us that we do? Or put another way, what is the matter with foreignness?

Our uneasiness with our own feelings of foreignness, our own rapidly fraying sense of belonging. To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, culture, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely? In other words, how do we decide where we belong? What convinces us that we do? Or put another way, what is the matter with foreignness?

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

A man's country is the world.

To be in a habitat—even a quite large and cosmopolitan one—when the Eye came around was, in pre-Zero terms, a little bit like being in a small town on the prairie and having a mobile Manhattan suddenly roll over the horizon, surround you, have a hundred kinds of intercourse with you, and then move on.

There's nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That's the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn't really mourn for that - it's too disturbing, seems like a mistake.

London is a liberal city, in all senses of the word. It is a city built on the idea that the multitude of cultures that inhabit it are a benefit, not a curse, where communities from all over the globe live and work side by side, enriching each other's experiences.

Mumbai is the most cosmopolitan city.

It is very easy to try to type cosmopolitan.com and accidentally type foxsports.com, if you just got your nails done.

I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'

Berlin vereint die Nachteile einer amerikanischen Großstadt mit denen einer deutschen Provinzstadt.

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

First of all, 'Sarkar' is not an underworld film. It's about a man at the head of a feudal set-up in the middle of a cosmopolitan city, where he almost runs a parallel government largely due to his personal charisma. And the film is about his friends and enemies and his family.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

New York City is the center of the world. There is an energy here. People from all over the world feel at home here.

I lived in New York City for six years, and I was always amazed at how diverse everything was.

And what do we love about New York City? We love that everyone's here. We are one of the most diverse cities in the world. And that diversity is racial. It's ethnic, it's linguistic, it's class.

I lived in Manhattan for 12 years and grew up outside New York City, so that was definitely how I saw the center of the world.

New Yorkers are jaded.