A Quote by David Lammy

From closing the digital divide to after-school activities and eating well, we cannot afford to ignore the link between deprivation and underachievement.

David Lammy

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David Lammy
British - Politician
Born: July 19, 1972

I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps it can take to address the digital divide as it affects local children, and provide a range of opportunities for ICT suppliers, government agencies, charities and other organisations to make a contribution.

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

Infrastructure investment is critical to closing the digital divide in our country and bringing high-speed Internet access to more rural Americans.

Ajit Pai

Can you afford to ignore China? It's like saying you can afford to ignore the internet. I don't think so.

Richard Branson

We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.

Tom Peters

Eating well isn't about dieting or deprivation, so you shouldn't feel that you're bound to certain rules.

Ella Woodward

Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere is this link manifest so strongly as with the problem of hunger.

Arnold Hiatt

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Leonard Cohen

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

Hillary Clinton

The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.

Benjamin Booker

The link between young girls, eating disorders and osteoporosis is a ticking time-bomb.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

I rarely felt or noticed any real divide between girls and boys when I was growing up. Maybe it was because I was so involved in sports and competed with the boys. Maybe it was my mom and dad, who constantly instilled confidence in me and never made me feel as though there were boy activities and girl activities.

Alex Morgan

America has spent as of one month ago $6 trillion in the Middle East. And in our country we can't afford to build a school in Brooklyn or we can't afford to build a school in Los Angeles. And we can't afford to fix up our inner cities. We can't afford to do anything.

Donald Trump

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

Peter Drucker

There is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world.

Pranav Mistry

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

Rebecca MacKinnon

When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.

Cheri Huber

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