Duke Egbert

“Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? “

--LeBron James

“Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is. “

--Kurt Russell

 by Duke Egbert

“Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.”

--Paul Carvel... (Belgian author)

“The good Lord has changed water into wine, so how can drinking beer be a sin?”

--Sign near a Belgian monastery

If we are bilingual, it is usually English and Spanish rather than Flemish and French. Our capital is Austin, not Antwerp. (The similarity of Austin and Belgian traffic jams is a coincidence.) But at least when it comes to locally-brewed beer, it seems like Austin is enjoying a little bit of Belgian style.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger ------Mark Twain 
   by Duke Egbert

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Mason Cooley

     I heard you all missed me, so I’m back.
    It’s been a time of change for your faithful Twin beer correspondent. As of January 1, I have more responsibilities, and I’ve moved from the Galleria Marketplace to the main offices. (Worry not; the beer section at the Galleria is in excellent hands.) So I thought I would come back with a bit of a bang – it’s time once again to joust at the windmill of common belief and explode a few more beer myths. (I do wish I was as cool as Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman sometimes, but I’ll get over it.)
  

by Duke Egbert -- Marketplace at the Galleria

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

                                                                                --Nelson Mandela

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Duke Egbert -- Store #60

            "I live on good soup, not on fine words."
                                    Moliere

            "A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
                                    Abraham Maslow

Duke Egbert * Twin Liquors Marketplace At The Galleria
December 4, 2010
 
Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today?  Today is a gift.  That's why we call it the present.  ~Babatunde Olatunji