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I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

~Alex Kingston

Topics: Assumed City Cosmopolitan Even Liberal Live London More Nobody Notices Opposite Relationships States Think Totally Would You I Think

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China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Become Been Certainly China Continue Cosmopolitan Doing Economically Education Ever Explode Investing Likely Lots More Opening Right Superpower Than Things Think Up Very Will I Think

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I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

~Anne M. Mulcahy

Topics: Anyway Best Cosmopolitan Degree Doing Good Got Journalism Magazine Me Months Nine Nine Months Place Six Spent Started Which 1970S

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Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

Topics: About Bohemian Bold Conservative Cosmopolitan Easy Going Happen Makes Money Naturally Next Paycheck People Poor Worry You Your

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I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

~Bjork

Topics: Coincidence Cosmopolitan England First First Place Iceland Lacks Life Love More Moved Only Place The Only Thing Thing Which I Love

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For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Conscious Cosmopolitan Culture Educational Enlightened Environmentally Humanist Intellectually Just Might Pagan Paganism Person Powerful Prejudices Show Socially Sophisticated Stereotypes Stimulating Struggle Those Tool Vibrant Who

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My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.

~Christian De Duve

Topics: Belgium City Cosmopolitan Country Education England Extraction French Grew Had Half Harbour Parents Part Refuge Returned Still Taken Time Up War Were Who

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Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.

~Christian De Duve

Topics: Belgium Benefit Born City Classical Cosmopolitan Dutch Education England First First World First World War French German Grew Had Languages National Parents Partly Roots Taught Two Up War Where World World War

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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.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Atmosphere Because Been City Cosmopolitan Deep French Influence Large Liberal May Most New New Orleans Orleans Population South Well

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'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.

~Dave Goldberg

Topics: Across Cosmopolitan Covers Entire Five Publish Sales Tank Unpopular Used

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