Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work."
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Lexicon
18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher, Linguist
"A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting."
Terry Pratchett
Author
"Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs."
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