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" I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides. "
Nick Woodman
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" I think that that's something that's pretty interesting about a GoPro - it's the one camera that we know of that you can combine with like cameras to form new cameras. So it's a bit of a modular system. "
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" I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there. "
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" I enrolled in a race car driving school, where you go for three days, and they wanted to rent me a video camera and charge me $100 for every half-hour. "
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You
School
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Students
Watch
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