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Quotes About Cosmopolitan

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
~ Steve Earle
Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. ... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.
~ Nick Hornby
my country is the world
~ Virginia Woolf
It's got more cosmopolitan, and it's lost its uniqueness, but Australia is still a great place.
~ Paul Hogan
New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.
~ Mira Nair
The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New York City is, there's so many things I don't know about other cultures, even though I encounter other cultures - maybe even 18 or 19 of them - when I get on a subway car every day.
~ Holly Hunter
There's nothin' wrong with the way men dress in New York!
~ Michael Bastian
I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.
~ Ken Bruen
I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect.
~ William Hurt
I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you have so many nationalities that are actually mixed together - it's so multicultural.
~ Daniel Humm
A city's soul is best observed during the morning, what is the culture of the city, how are the people, you also get to know whether the city is cosmopolitan or religious.
~ Vivek Agnihotri
Open a window in the SRO on a summer night and you can hear at least five dialects being spoken, the voices bouncing up and down the central interior courtyard, the courtyard in reality just a vertical column of interior-facing windows,
~ Charles Yu
Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world, it was the first place in which it was possible to assemble artifacts from around the world and allow people to study them.
~ Neil MacGregor
I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
~ Patrick Soon-Shiong
Sinatra's melancholy was the melancholy of mass (old) media technology - the 'extimacy' of the records facilitated by the phonograph and the microphone, and expressing a peculiarly cosmopolitan and urban sadness.
~ Mark Fisher
I'm an urban person.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.
~ Mary Daly
It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.
~ Stanley Marcus
What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.
~ Bill Buford
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
~ Norman Douglas
I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.
~ Helen Fielding
Three elements which balance out: a rural unconscious, an urban subconscious and a cosmopolitan consciousness.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Cosmopolitan evolutionism is an illusion, and it is everywhere being exposed as such. There is no solution to Foreignness. It is eternal - and radical. It is not a matter of wanting it to be that way. It simply is so.
~ Jean Baudrillard