Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to:
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief." As of January 2010 the English-language version has sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
George Pell AC (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the eighth and current Archbishop of Sydney, serving since 2001. He previously served as auxiliary bishop (1987–96) and archbishop (1996–2001) of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. He was created a cardinal in 2003.
Pell was born in Ballarat, Victoria, to George Arthur and Margaret Lillian (née Burke) Pell. His father, a non-practising Anglican whose ancestors were from Leicestershire in England, was a heavyweight boxing champion; his mother was a devout Catholic of Irish descent.[page needed] During World War II, his father served in the Australian Defence Force.[page needed] His sister, Margaret, became a violinist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. As a child, he underwent 24 operations to remove an abscess in his throat.[page needed]
Pell received his early education at Loreto Convent and at St. Patrick's College, both in his native Ballarat. One of his classmates at St Patrick's was Paul Bongiorno.[page needed] At St Patrick's, Pell played as a ruckman on the first XVIII from 1956 to 1959. He even signed to play with the Richmond Football Club. However, his ambitions later turned to the priesthood. Speaking of his decision to become a priest, Pell once said, "To put it crudely, I feared and suspected and eventually became convinced that God wanted me to do His work, and I was never able to successfully escape that conviction."[page needed]
Paulo César da Costa Cunha (born August 1, 1980, Vila Nova de Gaia) is a Portuguese basketball player, currently playing for FC Porto.
Raymond Arroyo is a New York Times bestselling author, and a producer. He is the news director and lead anchor of EWTN News, the news division of the Eternal Word Television Network, a Catholic broadcast network founded by Mother Angelica, a nun of the Poor Clare order. He is creator and host of the news magazine The World Over Live.
Raymond Arroyo is from New Orleans, Louisiana. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Rebecca and their three children.
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Michelle is a typical high school student until one night she is bitten by a strange animal while running in the woods. Her best friend tries to help her understand the changes she's going through, as she becomes a Vampire. Challenged by immortality and hunted by a group obsessed with fulfilling a prophecy about the end times, Michelle finds solace in a brood of Vampires whom she can't figure out if they are trying to help her or kill her. The fight is on! Will it be Immortality or Humanity? Tonight the destiny of one of these races will change forever.
Keywords: vampire, werewolf
Finally a Vampire movie with a big Bite! No Sparkles here, just fangs and bad ass vamps
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Following the murder of a physicist, Father Silvano Bentivoglio, a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and a scientist, Vittoria Vetra, are on an adventure involving a secret brotherhood, the Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four altars of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An assassin, working for the Illuminati, has captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.
Keywords: ampersand-in-title, ancient-manuscript, anger, anti-matter, applause, archive, art, art-history, attempted-murder, author
The holiest event of our time. Perfect for their return.
They Have Come For Their Revenge
Let Angels Guide You
Tell The World The Truth
Robert Langdon: Do you smoke?::Chartrand: A little bit.::Robert Langdon: Then you better sit down before you keel over.
Assassin: If it were up to me it would not be this way. It is a sin to kill the pain. It is a sin to kill without reason. Father, they make me a sinner.
[from trailer]::Robert Langdon: The Illuminati did not become violent until the 17th Century. Their name means 'The Enlightened Ones'. They were physicists, mathematicians, astronomers. In the 1500's they started meeting in secret, because they were concerned about the church's inaccurate teachings. They were dedicated to scientific truth. And the Vatican didn't like that. So the church began to, how did you say it? Oh, hunt them down and kill them.
[from trailer]::Vittoria Vetra: [points to computer diagram of the antimatter device] the antimatter is suspended, there, in an airtight nano-composite shell with electromagnets on each end. But if it were to fall out of suspension, and come into contact with matter, say with the bottom of the canister, the two opposing forces would annihilate one another. Violently.
[from trailer]::Richter: You said they'd be killed publicly.::Robert Langdon: Yes, revenge. For La Purga.::Richter: La Purga?::Robert Langdon: Oh geez, you guys don't even read your own history do you? 1668, the church kidnapped four Illuminati scientists and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the cross. To 'purge' them of their sins and they executed them, threw their bodies in the street as a warning to others to stop questioning church ruling on scientific matters. They radicalized them. The Purga created a darker, more violent Illuminati, one bent on... on retribution.
[from trailer]::Robert Langdon: I need access to the Vatican Archives.::Richter: Access to the Archives is only by written decree by the Holy Father.::Robert Langdon: Fellas, you called me.
Robert Langdon: It scares the hell out of me.
Cardinal Strauss: When you write about us, and you will, do so gently.
Cardinal Baggia: May god forgive you for what you've done...::Assassin: Father, if God has issues, they won't be with what I've done. They will be with what I'm about to do.
Inspector Olivetti: [on hearing Langdon's description of Pius IX's "Great Castration" of Vatican City's male statues] Are you anti-Catholic Mr. Langdon?::Robert Langdon: No. I'm anti-vandalism.
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Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was 'an act of God'. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and the church under the guise of God, defending himself. The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna Redmond (Davis).
Keywords: act-of-god, anglican, anti-establishment, attorney, bermagui-new-south-wales, big-business, boat, brother-brother-relationship, catholic, church
Jules Myers: You're going to sue one of the world's biggest insurance companies?::Steve Meyers: Well, apparently I wouldn't stand a chance - I'm suin' God.
Jules Myers: You know they say people make their own luck.::Rebecca: That's stupid! Why would anyone make luck that bad?
Steve Meyers: So if God does exist, the Churches must be liable.::Anna Redmond: And the churches can only win the case if they prove God does not exist.::Steve Meyers: [laughs] Do you want to tell them?
Primate: It's a sign.::Cardinal: A miracle.::Moderator: A winged messenger.::Gerry Ryan: It's a f***ing cockatoo!
Doctor: Forceps. Pliers. Bone nibblers.::Steve Meyers: Bone nibblers? What the hell are bone nibblers?::Doctor: You're a very lucky man.::Steve Meyers: Oh yes, it's been a brilliant day all round. Why don't you have a look at my prostate while you've got the bone nibblers handy.
Rabbi: [about his Christian counterparts] They're praying to God. They should be praying for better lawyers.
Steve Meyers: What do you think of a moral victory?::Anna Redmond: A moral victory sounds good.
David Myers: You can't win, because they can't afford to lose!
Steve Meyers: [Smiling at Anna] What would you say if I said I'm falling in love with you?
Rebecca: I'm proud of you Dad. No matter what happens.::Steve Meyers: Well, nothing can stop us now! [Hugs her]
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When somebody's mother is an angel and his father is the devil, life can be really confusing. For a sweet boy like Little Nicky, it just got a whole lot worse. His two evil brothers Adrian and Cassius have just escaped from Hell and are wreaking havoc on an unsuspecting earth. His dad is disintegrating and it's up to Nicky to save him and all of a humanity by midnight before one of his brothers becomes the new Satan.
Keywords: 2000s, absurd-humor, actor-playing-himself, angel, angry-mob, anti-hero, back-from-the-dead, backmasking-spoof, basketball, bat
He's Never Been To Earth. He's Never Even Slept Over Some Other Dude's House.
If Your Father Was The Devil And Your Mother Was An Angel, You'd Be Messed Up Too.
Be Unafraid. Be Very Unafraid.
Being Evil Ain't Easy
You know his number. You know his name. And now, you will meet... his son.
He Walks Among Us November 2000
Valerie: Do it for the butterflies!
Jimmy the Demon: Remember, you have to shove a pineapple up Hitler's ass at 4 p.m...
Deacon: The Lord loves you, and the Lord loves you. [to Nicky] You make the Lord very nervous.
Nicky: I'm from the South. The Deep South.
Nicky: Popeye's chicken is fuckin' awesome!::Demon: Popeye's chicken is the shiznit!
Son: [about Nicky] Who's that man, Mommy?::Mom: I dunno, but he sure is butt-ugly.
Townie: You can do it, Ozzy! Bite 'is freakin' head off!
Gatekeeper: Are there boobs on my head?::Nicky: Yeah, big ones.
Nicky: Can I wash my winky in your kitchen sinky?
Peter: Drink up. Here's to fifty million clams.::Adrian: To the defilement of Earth and the corruption of its people.::Peter: Okay whatever, just drink it.::Adrian: It's awfully hot down here. How do you manage to stay so cool?::John: Uh, beer lowers the body temperature. I read that in a beer magazine.::Adrian: This liquid would probably quench my thirst, cool me off.::Peter: Definitely.::John: It'll give you a pretty good buzz.::Adrian: Or maybe it will trap me inside for all of eternity.::John: Uh, no it won't.
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Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who's trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the governor's mansion to uncover a sex scandal.
Keywords: actress, alcohol, ass-kissing, assistant, atlanta-georgia, bar, blackmail, bride, broken-glass, broken-window
He's a menace to High Society.
The Talk Show Host that Everyone loves to hate!
Wally Sparks: The other day I saved a girl from being attacked: I changed my mind.
Wally Sparks: What a place, Canada; they started a country and no one showed up.
Wally Sparks: I hear in Canada you only have sex doggy style; that way you can both see the hockey game.
Wally Sparks: Siskel and Ebert caught my show. They gave me one finger up.
Wally Sparks: Remember folks, every man has his tale of woe. Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tale.
Wally Sparks: I looked up your family tree. Two dogs were using it.
Wally Sparks: And remember, it's lonely at the top, when there's no-one on the bottom.
Wally Sparks: I am here to spread Joy, tell when you find her.
Wally Sparks: You never had me.
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A killer is given the gas chamber after committing several demonic murders. His spirit is released and given power by the Devil. Now the cop that caught him before must find a way to do it again.
Keywords: antichrist, bare-breasts, cardinal-the-priest, catholic, catholic-priest, catholicism, commander, dead-policewoman, dead-woman-on-ground, dead-woman-with-eyes-open
Satan has created the perfect killer. One who cannot be stopped. Be warned.
Tess Seaton: Patrick you can't keep on killing forever!::Patrick Channing: Wanna Bet!
[last lines]::Patrick Channing: See you around, buddy-boy.
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A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
Keywords: acid, airport, alamo, arab, arab-stereotype, arms-dealer, assassination, based-on-novel, bomb, camera
Only Patrick Hale can prevent a desperate president, the head of the CIA, a trigger happy general, terrorists, an arms dealer, and religious fanatics from destroying our world, But he has other things on his mind.
If it doesn't happen on TV, it means nothing!
A very funny look at the world.
In a moment World War III... but first a word from our sponsor.
Patrick Hale was invented for television. He's a superstar TV reporter whose special news broadcasts reach a billion people every day. And in the past ten hours, he has uncovered the most incredible story of his career. The bad news is: it involves the President, Vice-President, Director of the CIA, a trigger-happy general, an Arab terrorist, a European arms dealer, religious fanatics, and the result may be World War III. The good news is: his ratings are going through the roof.
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France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results. Much cut from the play, but dialogue not rewritten.
Keywords: 1600s, 17th-century, ambush, baker, balcony, based-on-play, battle, cadet, cardinal-the-priest, catholic-priest
Fabulous Hero! Famous Nose!
The Most Loved of All Love Stories!
... he was the three musketeers in one, and one lover in a million!
[first lines]::Montfleury: Thrice happy he who hides from pomp and power/ In sylvan shade or or solitary bower/ Where balmy zephyrs fan his burning cheeks...::Cyrano de Bergerac: Clown! King of Clowns! Leave the stage at once!
Montfleury: Sir, I will not allow you to insult me in this manner.::Cyrano de Bergerac: Really? In what manner would you prefer?
Cyrano de Bergerac: Very well, let the old fellow come now. He shall find me on my feet sword in hand.::Roxane: Cyrano!::Le Bret: He's delirious.::Cyrano de Bergerac: I can see him now - he grins. He is looking at my nose, that skeleton. You there - who are you? A hundred against one, eh? I know them now, my ancient enemies...::[Cyrano thrusts his sword at the empty air]::Cyrano de Bergerac: Falsehood! There! There! Prejudice! Compromise! Cowardice! What's that? Surrender? No! Never! Never!::[He slashes his sword wildly]::Cyrano de Bergerac: Ah, you too, Vanity? I knew you would overthrow me in the end. No! I fight on! I fight on! I fight on!
[last lines]::Cyrano de Bergerac: All my laurels you have riven away... and my roses; yet in spite of you there is one crown I bear away with me. And tonight, when I enter before God, my salute shall sweep away all the stars from the blue threshold! One thing without stain, unspotted from the world in spite of doom mine own::[he raises his hand high]::Cyrano de Bergerac: and that is... my white plume.
Cyrano de Bergerac: You may go. / Or tell me, why are you staring at my nose?::The Meddler: No!::Cyrano de Bergerac: It disgusts you, then? Does its color appear to you unwholesome? / Or its form obscene?::The Meddler: But I've been careful not to look!::Cyrano de Bergerac: And why not if you please? / Possibly you find it just a trifle large!
Cyrano de Bergerac: [dueling with Valvert] Prince, pray God that is Lord of all, Pardon your soul, for your time has come, Beat, pass! I fling you aslant, asprawl, Then as I end the refrain, thrust home!
Antoine Comte de Guiche: As for you sir, have you read "Don Quixote"?::Cyrano de Bergerac: I have, and found myself the hero.::Antoine Comte de Guiche: Be so good as to read once more the chapter of the windmills...::Cyrano de Bergerac: Chapter thirteen!::Antoine Comte de Guiche: Windmills, remember, if you fight with them... may swing round their huge arms and cast you down into the mire!::Cyrano de Bergerac: Or up, among the stars!
Christian de Neuvillette: [Cyrano is coaching Christian, and Christian is reciting badly what Cyrano has written] "Thus do I love thee."::Cyrano de Bergerac: Idiot! There are a dozen ways to read that line - "*Thus* do I love thee"; "Thus do *I* love thee", "Thus do I love *thee*! *thee*! *thee*!"
Duenna: [Cyrano is trying to talk to Roxanne in private, when her Duenna enters] I have eaten the cakes, Monsieur de Bergerac.::Cyrano de Bergerac: [pushing her out the door] Good. Now go out and enjoy Nature.
Vicomte de Valvert: [to Cyrano] Dolt! Insolent puppy! Jabbernowl!::Cyrano de Bergerac: [bowing, sarcastically] How do you do? And I - Cyrano Savinien Hercule de Bergerac!
Ever smoldered splendor.
Never grieving pathos.
Being as the clean sword of...
righteousness.
Encompass the sibylline leaves.
The only truth starts in these ruins here.
An altered state of dianoia.
Auscultation of the inner grid of activity.
Desciendo hasta tu punto cardinal desciendo al underground de tu mirada
No hay un mapa que me pueda conducir tan lejos
No existe
En el trayecto soy el hombre preferido y me siento algo inmune a casi todo
Testigo de este instante crucial me inclino, desciendo
Habitemos este puente aereo entre tus ojos y tu punto cardinal
Flotamos en el aire esquivando la mediocridad
Desciendo hasta punto cardinal desciendo al underground de tu mirada
Un infinito preciso, presente, brillante, tranquilo y tan cierto
No te pierdas me dijiste un dia y parece que algun tiempo me perdi
Y descubri por ahi, que: la verdad estuvo siempre tan cerca de tu punto cardinal
La verdad está en tu punto cardinal
Desciendo, hasta tu punto cardinal
Desciendo
Desciendo