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Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.' -- Dave Chappelle
A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president. -- Ron Fournier
When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges. -- Jack Handey
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes. -- Bill James
I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep. -- Jaden Smith
During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office. -- Dan Thompson
In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like? -- Susan Cain
I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.' -- Jaden Smith
If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were. -- Denise Mina
I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it. -- Rila Fukushima
it used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now, or have you ever, contemplated marriage, motherhood, or the violent overthrow of the U.S. government? -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications. -- Tyra Banks
I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected. -- Julia Sweeney
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Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it. -- Kathryn Minshew
Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media). -- Simon Mainwaring
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting. -- Jonathan Cain
When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it. -- Nina Garcia
I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.' -- Jennifer Lawrence
I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?' He said 'I don't know'. I said 'I don't want your job'. -- Steven Wright
In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business. -- Daniel Handler
I think, in life, being nervous about something that's forthcoming is very helpful, whether it's an awards show or a family gathering or a job interview. If you're too calm and confident, then I think you aren't executing to the best of your ability. So I try not to let nerves get the best of me, but I welcome them because it tends to fuel me to try harder. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked. -- Susan Mallery
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. -- Casey Stengel
I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way. -- Anna Deavere Smith
A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops. -- Alan Davies
Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? -- Jerry Seinfeld
If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview. -- Brad Paisley
I graduated from college and went on one job interview and was laughing in my own head because I wouldn't hire me. -- Daniel Tosh
I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship. -- Ozwald Boateng
Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it? -- Sugata Mitra
It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview. -- John Travolta
I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much. -- Terry J. Lundgren
I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them. -- Michael F. Jacobson

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