Words matter. These are the best Faux Quotes from famous people such as Franchesca Ramsey, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jane Velez-Mitchell, John Oliver, Leigh Lezark, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Over the years, I’ve found that dealing with white people faux pas can be tricky. If I get upset, I could quickly be labeled the ‘angry black girl.’ But if I don’t say anything or react too passively, I risk giving friends and acquaintances permission to continue crossing the line.
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn’t want to have normal student accoutrements.
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
I’m not really much of an actor, so when I started on ‘The Daily Show’, I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
I’m vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.
One fashion faux pas that men make is wearing ill-fitted clothing with too many prints and statement pieces.
I feel, at times, women in India go beyond their comfort zone just to clad the trend, and that automatically becomes a faux pas. If you are not comfortable with something, please don’t wear it.
Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion’s head on the wall.
I’ve got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.
But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you’re doing it on the red carpet, you’re doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.
They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don’t want to. I don’t want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don’t need to do it again.
I’d love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don’t.
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
I will never wear something I’m not comfortable in, and if I do, you’ll see it in my face, and it’ll be a complete faux pas.
I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.
A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows – faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.