Dalai Lama

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Tibetan Leader

Olivia Hussey

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.

British Actress

Leo Buscaglia

I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

American Author

Bruce Springsteen

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

American Musician

Ann Dowd

It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was not what I had at all. They were very, very smart, devoted individuals.

American Actress

Vera Wang

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

American Designer

Madonna Ciccone

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

Emilia Wickstead

I attended speech and drama classes with a nun to help me gain confidence in speaking without my face turning red each time.

New Zealander Designer

Gabrielle Reece

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

Athlete

Brandy Norwood

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

Understand that a nun dedicates her life to religious service, often living separately from society.

Religious Lifestyle

Nuns are often portrayed in media as strict or kind, shaping how we might perceive them.

Cultural Portrayal

While commonly associated with Catholicism, nuns exist in other religious contexts too.

Not Always Catholic

Nun in ancient Egypt represents the primeval waters, symbolizing the origin of life.

Mythological Concept

Each letter in the Hebrew alphabet, including Nun, has both a phonetic and numerical value.

Alphabet Significance

Nun has a different form at the end of a word in Hebrew, called the final Nun.

Script Variations

 because they know that I'm doing it and I plan to send it to them. And, you know, the nuns who taught me were incredibly progressive. I hope that they'll be very proud of me for living out what they taught us about social justice and service. I have come to feel incredibly passionate about this issue because of what I've seen in the developing world.

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 our nature is to be peaceful, our nature is to be healthy. And so happiness is not something you get, health is generally not something that you get, but rather, all of these different practices -- you know, the ancient swamis and rabbis and priests and monks and nuns didn't develop these techniques to just manage stress

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 I was sent straight away to my school principal, and my school principal, a sweet nun, looked at my book with disgust, flipped through the pages, saw all the nudes -- you know, I'd been seeing my mother draw nudes and I'd copy her -- and the nun slapped me on my face and said,

My 5 lives as an artist...

 can hold ownership or knowledge of absolute truth, even when it comes to religious beliefs. Good luck testing that concept out on the priests and nuns in your Catholic school. No wonder I was confused and hyperaware of how different I was from my peers.

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 japanese-controlled saipan she was imprisoned then smuggled back to the u.s disguised as a nun and if that weren't enough as a final twist she settled down to live at her life in monroe township new jersey as a housewife

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 to get the woman at her most vulnerable time in her entire life, to sign the adoption papers. So the adoption papers were signed. The mother and baby's homes were often run by nuns. The adoption papers were signed,

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 the statues making the world's weirdest reef the bodies were modeled after real people a nun a carpenter a yoga instructor an accountant and hundreds more talk about sleeping with the fishes

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