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I've known my whole life that I'm gay, and I now feel that I'm ready to come out and be myself. in reaching this point, I've had some of the best support and advice from my family, my Club, my agent and Stonewall, who have all been incredibly pro-active in putting my interests and welfare first. – Jake Daniels	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're so busy with the kids and our careers and being pro-active in our church, every day is date night. – John Travolta	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We want to see a refit of some of the structures of the Belfast Agreement to reflect the new emerging relationships – both between Northern Ireland and the Republic as well as between the United Kingdom and the Republic, updated arrangements to take account of any new Brexit deal secured would allow the new environment to be managed in a pro-active and democratic manner. – Arlene Foster	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Updated arrangements to take account of any new Brexit deal secured would allow the new environment to be managed in a pro-active and democratic manner. – Arlene Foster	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is very important to be pro-active... before you get badly legislated. – Van Boxmeer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was particularly keen to make sure Tiger Lily wasn't a damsel in distress, tiger Lily is the bad-ass warrior who is far more pro-active physically in defeating (evil pirate) Blackbeard than any of the boys. She has all the action sequences. – Joe Wright	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Boosting strategic investment is fine, but that's not the same thing as buying back shares, for a company like Fanuc which has so much cash, it's pretty extreme not to be more pro-active in returning value. – Masayuki Kubota	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The lack of economic growth and the return of volatility is prompting us to be more pro-active in buying and selling assets to capture the big moves in prices, we still favour the dividend theme in Europe. Stocks pay a hefty 3.5 percent yield on average, that's much higher than in the fixed income market. – Andreas Utermann	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

I've known my whole life that I'm gay, and I now feel that I'm ready to come out and be myself. in reaching this point, I've had some of the best support and advice from my family, my Club, my agent and Stonewall, who have all been incredibly pro-active in putting my interests and welfare first.

– Jake Daniels

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're so busy with the kids and our careers and being pro-active in our church, every day is date night.

– John Travolta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We want to see a refit of some of the structures of the Belfast Agreement to reflect the new emerging relationships – both between Northern Ireland and the Republic as well as between the United Kingdom and the Republic, updated arrangements to take account of any new Brexit deal secured would allow the new environment to be managed in a pro-active and democratic manner.

– Arlene Foster

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Updated arrangements to take account of any new Brexit deal secured would allow the new environment to be managed in a pro-active and democratic manner.

– Arlene Foster

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is very important to be pro-active... before you get badly legislated.

– Van Boxmeer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was particularly keen to make sure Tiger Lily wasn't a damsel in distress, tiger Lily is the bad-ass warrior who is far more pro-active physically in defeating (evil pirate) Blackbeard than any of the boys. She has all the action sequences.

– Joe Wright

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Boosting strategic investment is fine, but that's not the same thing as buying back shares, for a company like Fanuc which has so much cash, it's pretty extreme not to be more pro-active in returning value.

– Masayuki Kubota

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The lack of economic growth and the return of volatility is prompting us to be more pro-active in buying and selling assets to capture the big moves in prices, we still favour the dividend theme in Europe. Stocks pay a hefty 3.5 percent yield on average, that's much higher than in the fixed income market.

– Andreas Utermann

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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