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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. -- Neil Simon
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca. -- Malcolm X
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca. -- C. L. R. James
The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. -- Karen Armstrong
Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track. -- Betty Shabazz
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
There are many roads to Mecca. -- Hugh Hefner
Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop. -- Obie Trice
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. -- Robert Duvall
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education. -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot. -- Scott Caan
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. -- Joni Mitchell
I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Francisco, and then there's Vancouver. -- Avan Jogia
There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions. -- Rahman Baba
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca. -- Anthony Bourdain
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. -- Michael J. Fox
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Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . . -- John William Draper
Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win. -- Pat Burns
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan. -- Richard Dawkins
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca. -- Patti Smith
Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca. -- Simon Hoggart
There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca. -- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. -- Karen Armstrong
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. -- Dan Brown
Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage. -- Malcolm X
The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca. -- Raquel Cepeda
For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca. -- Stephan Pastis
There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca]. -- Malcolm X
Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years. -- Kwasi Kwarteng
California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California. -- Morris Chestnut
After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca. -- Shauna Singh Baldwin
I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck -- Mamadou Sakho
My favorite sexual position is when the girl is facing Mecca and I am fighting off a wolf. -- Dane Cook
... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca. -- Jack Paar
Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca. -- Gene Pitney
If Islam opposes terrorism, then Saudi Arabia should announce that no one supportive of ISIS or Al Qaeda is welcome in Mecca to make Hajj. -- Bob Enyart
A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread. -- Ambrose Bierce
We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca. -- Geert Wilders
The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation... -- Toby Lester
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The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca. -- Lance Morrow
Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca for all judokas. Certainly, I would be pleased to visit, if time permits. -- Vladimir Putin
Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca -- Karen Armstrong
Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem. -- Stephen Colbert
Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago. -- Harold Ramis
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read. -- Eboo Patel
I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill. -- Parvesh Cheena
Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there. -- Valerie Simpson
Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. -- Robert Duvall
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. -- Robert Duvall
No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries. -- Alex Shoumatoff
Sephora is a mecca for cosmetics, and it supports what I enjoy: You go into the store, and touch it, and try it, and love it. I've never bought anything on the Internet. I like experience. -- Marc Jacobs
I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here. -- Jeff Abbott
I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college. -- Sarah Shahi
You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college. -- Sarah Shahi
For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter. -- Alan Jay Lerner
It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in the majesty of the cosmos. I use words, compose sentences that sound like the sentences I hear out of people that had revelation of Jesus, who go on their pilgrimages to Mecca. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message. -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut. -- Jim Nantz
Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do. -- Carl Hiaasen
It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere. -- Joe Dempsie
No golfers journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries. -- Alex Shoumatoff
I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet. -- Joan Chen

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