"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

drafted by Jefferson with help from Adams and Franklin

provides a foundation for popular sovereignty

represented separation from England

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

"....whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"

Why would it be important for the decision to separate from Britain to be unanimous?

What words show how the colonists feel about Britain and the king?

By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.

Throughout the 1760s and early 1770s, the North American colonists found themselves increasingly at odds with British imperial policies regarding taxation and frontier policy

Despite these changes, colonial leaders hoped to reconcile with the British Government, and all but the most radical members of Congress were unwilling to declare independence.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

Martial arts is not about fighting, it is about being fit and healthy, both physiologically and psychologically.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark

I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'

Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.

If you learn to make harmony with your past then there is no mountain you cant conquer in life.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

I've had a quite a few nightmares about being chased by walkers.

I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.

Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted.

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.