“I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (2004), p. 14

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American actor and comedian 1921–2004

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