"It was almost as if he never existed - I find it utterly scandalous for someone who was so innovative and a film director of international stature, " she said.

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And if any such unfortunate existed, he or she could cast a provisional ballot and settle the problem later.

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If life ever existed on Mars, he believes, it was most likely microscopic and lived more than three and a half billion years ago.

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If something like the Thiel Fellowships had existed, he and others like him could have been spared a lot of pain.

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He said he would only use inflation-targeting if a consensus existed at the Fed that it was a good idea.

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The Goldman he describes hasn't been around for a while, if it ever existed at all.

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"If Richard III had not have died, maybe the Anglican church would never have existed, " he said.

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