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At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now.
Gillian Anderson / Actress
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It's really important to differentiate between being sceptical and cynical.
Tyler Henry /
Cynical
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Author
Gullible
People
Wrong Things
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As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust.
Gavin Esler / Television Presenter
Journalists
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
J. Paul Getty / Industrialist
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I was not sceptical coming to Pakistan. I took the job because I was really excited about it.
Mickey Arthur /
Pakistan
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I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
Natan Sharansky / Israeli Politician
Book
Inspired
Literature
Writing
Change Freedom Power
Change The World
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Governments need to be seriously sceptical about whether new coal provides a good deal for their citizens.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
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When my country was born, many people were sceptical about the chances for us to exist, let alone prosper.
Miroslav Lajcak /
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The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
John Bercow / Speaker Of The House Of Commons
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I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational.
Alastair Reynolds / Author
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We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.
Katharine Gun /
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
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Digital
Digital Technology
Europe
Hollywood
Labels
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It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
Ben Mckenzie /
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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
William Dunbar / Poet
Despair
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Mystical
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I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there.
Aidan Turner / Actor
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I consider myself to be a relatively sceptical person. I like to see evidence for myself, and try to avoid speculating beyond available evidence. But I also have to accept some things on trust.
Alice Roberts /
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I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.
Christopher Nolan / Film Director
Quality
Technology
Thinking
Somewhat
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When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
Bjorn Lomborg / Writer
Environment
Good Business May
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Author
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I think you can be sceptical, and still do things that are in a joyful way, and ultimately you are on stage entertaining. If you let your philosophy get too much in the way of that, then you are failing as an entertainer.
Derren Brown / Illusionist
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Author
Accounts
Catholic
Crusades
Different
Greek
Three
Side
French
Listen
Deeply
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Muslim
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Rusbridger's intelligence, personal sense of higher calling and almost other-worldly self-absorption have played no small part in the stories that have most defined the Guardian and that, under another sort of steward, might have had a much more sceptical reception.
Michael Wolff /
Calling
Defined
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There were offers from a few Bollywood filmmakers, but I was sceptical as to whether those films will do justice to my vision or even my life. I was also apprehensive because what if I sign an agreement and give the rights to some filmmaker, and he shelves the project?
Arunachalam Muruganantham /
Bollywood
Offers
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I had a strong interest in free online education, and I was interested in what videos and formats would work for it. A lot of education workers were very sceptical about what computer scientists were doing. It was only after the first visible success of MOOCs that they started to take it seriously.
Andrew Ng / Professor
Visible
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Formats
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As a historian, I'm sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires drinking scotch behind some closed doors. But I do think that the voters are correct in sensing that they're really losing power. And in reaction, they give the system an angry kick.
Yuval Noah Harari /
Angry
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Doors
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Historian
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Behind
Billionaires
Closed
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Correct
Far
Few
Give
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When a Conservative government is presiding over unfair cuts to tax credits, chaos in the NHS and an unnecessary and ideological attack on trade union rights, it is natural that many in the Labour party should be sceptical of Tory talk on devolution - sceptical, even of government deals with Labour-led local authorities.
Chuka Umunna / British Politician
Chaos
Deals
Ideological
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Nhs
Unnecessary
Authorities
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Cuts
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We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry.
Daniel Levitin / Neuroscientist
Adaptive
Behaviour
Nationalism
Racism
Sexism
Species
Leads
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