Eavan Boland

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

Irish Poet

Romesh Gunesekera

My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

Sri Lankan Author

Kim Cattrall

Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

English Actress

Ulrich Beck

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

German Sociologist

Ethan Zuckerman

It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.

American Activist

Uzodinma Iweala

Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

American Author

Jurgen Habermas

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

German Philosopher

Kareena Kapoor Khan

My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.

Indian Actress

Vivek Agnihotri

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.

Indian Director

Jamie Bamber

L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

English Actor

Used to describe someone who easily adapts to different cultural settings.

Cultural Adaptability

Implies a person has been exposed to and appreciates various cultures.

Diverse Experience

Often suggests refined and diverse tastes influenced by multiple cultures.

Sophisticated Taste

A cosmopolitan person is open and eager to learn about different cultures.

Not Narrow-minded

Expresses a sense of belonging globally, not just to one's native culture.

Global Belonging

Means something is influenced by a wide array of international elements.

Wide-ranging Influence

Highlights a mixture or blend of various cultural elements in one place or thing.

Blend of Cultures

Implies something has an appeal that transcends local or national boundaries.

Worldly Appeal

 virtually the rest of the world, in fact, which have been in a far weaker position, vis-a-vis the West -- have been thereby forced to understand the West, because of the West's presence in those societies. And therefore, they are, as a result, more cosmopolitan in many ways than the West.

Understanding the rise...

 to one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, New York City. At the same time, we are inviting them to come and explore our part of the world. They're learning our culture, our language, our heritage and realizing we're just as different and just the same as each other.

Sheikha Al Mayassa:...

 such a debate should be openly discussed in new, cosmopolitan parliaments, in new institutions that reflect the diversity of people contributing to a utopian project of a global network. And while it may seem impossible to consider the values of users worldwide,

The price of a "clean"...

 But more importantly, Kenyans may finally consider themselves worthy of the love that we reserve for others. Kenya's creative industry is dynamic, cosmopolitan, forward-looking, and without a doubt, a true manufacturing industry of the immediate future.

Creativity builds...

 Out-of-touch, one-percent plutocrats? Or maybe the heartless, greedy Wall Street type, right? Or maybe people like me, with multiple origins, living in a big, cosmopolitan metropolis. Well, you remember that World Values Survey that I mentioned earlier?

How nationalism and...

 they spend per person per poor person in poor countries the ratio Branko Milanovic at the World Bank that the calculations turns out to be about thirty thousand to one now of course some of us if we truly are cosmopolitan

Actually, the world...

 What do my bookshelves say about me? Well, when I asked myself this question a few years ago, I made an alarming discovery. I'd always thought of myself as a fairly cultured, cosmopolitan sort of person.

My year reading a book...

 yet this diversity did not necessarily lead to a cosmopolitan, egalitarian classroom democracy. Instead, it generated an atmosphere in which each child was seen -- not as an individual on his own,

The politics of fiction...

 they're cosmopolitan, they're sexy. They're the perfect antidote to reactionary nationalism. But cities have a dark side. They take up just three percent of the world's surface area,

The biggest risks facing...

 from foreign countries it was a cosmopolitan city and it was a very big city

Cosmopolitan